Flat Files
How Data Integration handles Flat files ..
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How Data Integration handles Flat files ..
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Despite being the most basic format used to store data, files are broadly used and they exist in several formats as fixed width, comma-separated values, spreadsheet, or even free format files. Pentaho Data Integration can read data from all types of files.
Some of the Orders data that Steel Wheels process are in a text format. In this guided demo, you will flatten the list, create capture groups, replace text, and finally format the order_value.
In this demonstration, you will format the text file input to be onboarded into a database table:
• Text File Input
• Flattener
• RegEx Evaluation
• Replace in String
• Select values
Steel Wheels wants to send out a survey to its customers, based on a list of questions.
In this demonstration, you will configure a text file survey:
• Get System Info
• User Defined Java Expression
• Data Grid
• Append
• Text File Output