Starting URLs formula based generation

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Datacol supports following starting URLs list generation formulas:


- Increment: {1,1000}. Example is provided below. E.g. for the following formula:


http://url.com/page?id={1,5}


Starting URLs list will be generated as follows:


http://url.com/page?id=1


http://url.com/page?id=2


http://url.com/page?id=3


http://url.com/page?id=4


http://url.com/page?id=5


- Interval based increment: {1,1000,30}. If you want to generate numbers differed by certain number (interval) from each other, you should use interavl based increment. E.g. for the following formula:


http://url.com/page?id={1,200,30}


Starting URLs list will be generated as follows:


http://url.com/page?id=1


http://url.com/page?id=31


http://url.com/page?id=61


http://url.com/page?id=91


http://url.com/page?id=121


http://url.com/page?id=151


http://url.com/page?id=181


As you may have guessed, third parameter is the interval.


Formulas may be combined. E.g. for the following formula:


http://url.com/page?id={1,5}{1,100,30}


Starting URLs list will be generated as follows:


http://url.com/page?id=11


http://url.com/page?id=131


http://url.com/page?id=161


http://url.com/page?id=191


http://url.com/page?id=21


http://url.com/page?id=231


http://url.com/page?id=261


http://url.com/page?id=291


http://url.com/page?id=31


http://url.com/page?id=331


http://url.com/page?id=361


http://url.com/page?id=391


http://url.com/page?id=41


http://url.com/page?id=431


http://url.com/page?id=461


http://url.com/page?id=491


http://url.com/page?id=51


http://url.com/page?id=531


http://url.com/page?id=561


http://url.com/page?id=591


The basic idea is that in the first instance Datacol generates all variations determined with the first formula, and than for eah generated variation Datacol generates all variations determined with the second formula etc.


Note: if you set large number of formulas (particularly for combining), generation process can take quite a lot of time.


Generation results can be checked with Test button.


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