Glossary and Concepts

In the following, you will find a glossary of terms and concepts that are used in Lobster_data and the documentation.

• Structure of a Properties File

• Blacklist and Whitelists for File Extensions

• File Names, File Patterns, Paths, System Constants and Variables

• Data Structures in Lobster_data

• Data Types

• Empty Flag

• Format Templates for Dates and Times

• FTP, FTPS, SSH, SCP, SFTP

• Locale

• Naming Conventions for Nodes and Fields

• Number Ranges

• Obfuscation

• Permanent Values

• PGP Keyrings and Lobster_data

• PPP Configuration for Preparsers

• Source Tree and Target Tree

• Regular Expressions

• Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

• Table Cache

• Token List, Named List, Named Map, Value Splitter

• Representation of Nonprintable Delimiters

• Variables and Constants

• Inheritance Value