Type of the match which can be applied to different ways of
matching, like Dictionary, regular expression and intersecting
with findings of another info type.
- Dictionary: join of Dictionary results matched
complete finding quote
- Regex: all regex matches fill a finding quote
start to end
- Exclude info type: completely inside affecting
info types findings
MATCHING_TYPE_PARTIAL_MATCH (2):
Partial match.
- Dictionary: at least one of the tokens in the
finding matches
- Regex: substring of the finding matches
- Exclude info type: intersects with affecting
info types findings
MATCHING_TYPE_INVERSE_MATCH (3):
Inverse match.
- Dictionary: no tokens in the finding match the
dictionary
- Regex: finding doesn't match the regex
- Exclude info type: no intersection with
affecting info types findings
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