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There are 2 known data types read from these files: Number and String.

Since: PDI version 4.4.0-M1, October 12th, 2012.

This step is extensively using the Sassy Reader project library by eobjects, written by Kasper Sørensen .

4.4.0 release note: Unfortunately we found an issue (PDI-8875) with this step that was too late to incorporate into 4.4.0. This step throws a "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError" caused by missing ../libext/eobject path in launcher/launcher.properties. Workaround is to change the libraries line in launcher.properties to:
libraries=../test:../test/libext:../lib:../libext:../libext/commons:../libext/elasticsearch:../libext/feeds:../libext/google:../libext/hl7:../libext/JDBC:../libext/jersey:../libext/jfree:../libext/mondrian:../libext/pentaho:../libext/poi:../libext/reporting:../libext/rules:../libext/salesforce:../libext/spring:../libext/web:../libext/webservices:../libswt:../libext/eobjects

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and has a couple of limitations, see also PDI-8969.

Options

There are 2 main options: 

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