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How to build a grouped Variable Extractor?

From the Documentation:
If you choose to process all the matched occurrences, the following variables are automatically created:

<VariableName>_matchNr - the number of occurrences found; can be 0.
<VariableName>_n, where n = 1,2,3 and so on. - the strings as generated by the value template.
<VariableName>_n_gm, where m=0,1,2 - the groups matching n
<VariableName> - always attached to the default value
<VariableName>_rand, random string from generated strings
<VariableName>_rand_gm, where m=0,1,2 - the groups matching rand

I have a list like this:
[
"beige",
"beige"
],
[
"blue",
"blau"
],
[
"brown",
"braun"
],

And I think a group would be the best, because the values are pairs, which are needed together. But how do I tell Neoload to build groups while extracting all occurrences. Is there a special key I can provide to the pattern?
The regular expression right now is:
\n "([,]*?)(.*?)([,]*?)(.*?)"
The pattern is: $2$$4$
But I get only one list with all of them sequentially.
Like Param_1 = ""
Param_2=""
Param_3="beige"
Param_4="beige"
Param_5="blue"
Param_6="blau"
I'd want to have
Param_3_g1="blue"
Param_3_g2="blau"
(Not sure if I put the right way, as I not tried, but I hope it becomes clear, where I want to go)

Any hints welcome. I'm sure I did that already, but I don't find it. (nice feature btw.)

bye

frank

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When you use the group feature, the template is not used.
In your case, you can use "Param_3_g2" to get the content of the second group of your regular expression (whatever the template).

I try your example and it works fine using the regular expression:
"(.*?)"[,]([^^]*?)"(.*?)"
and the groups 1 and 3 (Param_n_g1 and Param_n_g3).

Best regards.

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How do I activate the group feature? This is what I don't find.
It should work with my regex as well with g2 and g4 if I understand right, and my regex focuses better on the data. Your regex just gets to much of the rest of the page.

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Okay. I now found the problem. Only the $4$ put data with the old regex.
I changed to "(\")([^"]+)(\"),\n (\")([^"]+)(\")" as regex and now I have the desired values on _g2 and _g5.

Thanks a lot for the hint.