Step Name

Optionally, you can change the name of this step to fit your needs. Every step in a transformation must have a unique name.

Environment

Indicates the file system or specific cluster on which the item you want to input can be found.  Options are Local, <Static>, S3, or <Hadoop Cluster Name>.

• Local: Specifies that the item specified in the File/Folder field is in a file system that is local to Spoon.
• <Static>: Specifies that the item specified in the File/Folder field should use the path name in that field, exactly.  Use this if you already know a file path and you simply want to copy and paste it into the window.
• S3: Specifies that the item specified in the File/Folder field is in a file system that is on the S3 file system.
• <Hadoop Cluster Name>: Specifies that the item specified in the File/Folder field is in the cluster indicated.

File/Folder

Specifies the location and/or name of the text file to read. Click Browse to launch the Open window and to navigate to the file or folder.

Wildcard (RegExp)

Specify the regular expression you want to use to select the files in the directory specified in the File or Directory field. For example, you want to process all files that have a .txt output.

Required

Indicates whether the file is required.

Include subfolders

Indicates whether to include subdirectories (subfolders).

Show filenames(s)...

Displays a list of all files that are loaded based on the current selected file definitions.

Show file content

Displays the raw content of the selected file.

Show content from first data line

Displays the content from the first data line for the selected file.

/dirA/

.userdata.\.txt

Find all files in /dirA/ with names containing user data and ending with .txt

/dirB/

AAA.*

Find all files in /dirB/ with names that start with AAA

/dirC/

[ENG:A-Z][ENG:0-9].*

Find all files in /dirC/ with names that start with a capital and followed by a digit (A0-Z9)

Accept file names from previous steps

Enables the option to get file names from previous steps

Pass through fields from previous step

Enables the option to get field information from previous steps.

Step to read file names from

Step from which to read the file names

Field in the input to use as file name

Text File Input looks in this step to determine which filenames to use

Access Key

This option only appears if you select S3 in the Source Environment field in the Hadoop File Input window. User name needed to access the S3 file system.

Secret Key

This option only appears if you select S3 in the Source Environment field in the Hadoop File Input window. Password needed to access the S3 file system. 

Open from Folder

Indicates the path and name of the directory you want to browse.  This directory becomes the active directory.

Up One Level

Displays the parent directory of the active directory shown in the Open from Folder field.

Delete

Deletes a folder from the active directory.

Create Folder

Creates a new folder in the active directory.

Name

Displays the active directory, which is the one that is listed in the Open from Folder field.

Filter

Applies a filter to the results displayed in the active directory contents.

File type

Can be either CSV or Fixed length. Based on this selection, Spoon launches a different helper GUI when you click Get Fields in the Fields tab.

Separator

One or more characters that separate the fields in a single line of text. Typically this is a semicolon ( ; ) or a tab.

Enclosure

Some fields can be enclosed by a pair of strings to allow separator characters in fields. The enclosure string is optional. If you use repeat an enclosures allow text line 'Not the nine o''clock news.'. With ' the enclosure string, this gets parsed as Not the nine o'clock news.

Allow breaks in enclosed fields?

Not implemented

Escape

Specify an escape character (or characters) if you have these types of characters in your data. If you have a backslash ( / ) as an escape character, the text 'Not the nine o\'clock news' (with a single quote [ ' ] as the enclosure) gets parsed as Not the nine o'clock news.

Header & number of header lines

Enable if your text file has a header row (first lines in the file). You can specify the number of times the header lines appears.

Footer & number of footer lines

Enable if your text file has a footer row (last lines in the file). You can specify the number of times the footer row appears.

Wrapped lines and number of wraps

Use if you deal with data lines that have wrapped beyond a specific page limit. Headers and footers are never considered wrapped.

Paged layout and page size and doc header

Use these options as a last resort when dealing with texts meant for printing on a line printer. Use the number of document header lines to skip introductory texts and the number of lines per page to position the data lines

Compression

Enable if your text file is in a Zip or GZip archive. Only the first file in the archive is read.

No empty rows

Do not send empty rows to the next steps.

Include file name in output

Enable if you want the file name to be part of the output

File name field name

Name of the field that contains the file name

Rownum in output?

Enable if you want the row number to be part of the output

Row number field name

Name of the field that contains the row number

Format

Can be either DOS, UNIX, or mixed. UNIX files have lines that are terminated by line feeds. DOS files have lines separated by carriage returns and line feeds. If you specify mixed, no verification is done.

Encoding

Specify the text file encoding to use. Leave blank to use the default encoding on your system. To use Unicode, specify UTF-8 or UTF-16. On first use, Spoon searches your system for available encodings.

Be lenient when parsing dates?

Disable if you want strict parsing of data fields. If case-lenient parsing is enabled dates like Jan 32nd become Feb 1st.

The date format Locale

This locale is used to parse dates that have been written in full such as "February 2nd, 2006." Parsing this date on a system running in the French (fr_FR) locale would not work because February is called Février in that locale.

Add filenames to result

Adds filenames to result filenames list.

Ignore errors?

Enable if you want to ignore errors during parsing

Skip error lines

Enable if you want to skip those lines that contain errors. You can generate an extra file that contains the line numbers on which the errors occur. Lines with errors are not skipped. The fields that have parsing errors are empty (null).

Error count field name

Add a field to the output stream rows. This field contains the number of errors on the line.

Error fields field name

Add a field to the output stream rows; this field contains the field names on which an error occurred.

Error text field name

Add a field to the output stream rows; this field contains the descriptions of the parsing errors that have occurred.

Warnings file directory

When warnings are generated, they are placed in this directory. The name of that file is <warning dir>/filename.<date_time>.<warning extension>

Error files directory

When errors occur, they are placed in this directory. The name of the file is <errorfile_dir>/filename.<date_time>.<errorfile_extension>

Failing line numbers files directory

When a parsing error occurs on a line, the line number is placed in this directory. The name of that file is <errorline dir>/filename.<date_time>.<errorline extension>

Filter string

The string for which to search.

Filter position

The position where the filter string must be placed in the line. Zero (0) is the first position in the line. If you specify a value below zero (0), the filter string is searched for in the entire string.

Stop on filter

Specify Y here if you want to stop processing the current text file when the filter string is encountered.

Positive match

Turns filters into positive mode when turned on. Only lines that match this filter will be passed. Negative filters take precedence and are immediately discarded.

Name

Name of the field.

Type

Type of the field can be either String, Date or Number.

Format

See Number Formats for a complete description of format symbols.

Length

For Number: Total number of significant figures in a number. For String: total length of string. For Date: length of printed output of the string, for instance, 4 only gives back the year.

Precision

For Number: Number of floating point digits. For String, Date, Boolean: unused.

Currency

Used to interpret numbers like $10,000.00 or E5.000,00.

Decimal

A decimal point can be a "." (10;000.00) or "," (5.000,00).

Grouping

A grouping can be a dot "," (10;000.00) or "." (5.000,00).

Null if

Treat this value as null.

Default

Default value in case the field in the text file was not specified (empty).

Trim

Type trim this field, left, right, both, before processing.

Repeat

If the corresponding value in this row is empty, repeat the one from the last time it was not empty (Y/N).

0

Number

Yes

Digit

#

Number

Yes

Digit, zero shows as absent

.

Number

Yes

Decimal separator or monetary decimal separator

Number

Yes

Minus sign

,

Number

Yes

Grouping separator

E

Number

Yes

Separates mantissa and exponent in scientific notation. Need not be quoted in prefix or suffix.

;

Sub pattern boundary

Yes

Separates positive and negative sub patterns

%

Prefix or suffix

Yes

Multiply by 100 and show as percentage

\u2030

Prefix or suffix

Yes

Multiply by 1000 and show as per mille

(\u00A4)

Prefix or suffix

No

Currency sign, replaced by currency symbol. If doubled, replaced by international currency symbol. If present in a pattern, the monetary decimal separator is used instead of the decimal separator.

'

Prefix or suffix

No

Used to quote special characters in a prefix or suffix, for example, "'#'#" formats 123 to "#123". To create a single quote itself, use two in a row: "# o''clock".

G

Era designator

Text

AD

y

Year

Year

1996 or 96

M

Month in year

Month

July, Jul, or 07

w

Week in year

Number

27

W

Week in month

Number

2

D

Day in year

Number

189

d

Day in month

Number

10

F

Day of week in month

Number

2

E

Day in week

Text

Tuesday or Tue

a

Am/pm marker

Text

PM

H

Hour in day (0-23)

Number 0

n/a

k

Hour in day (1-24)

Number 24

n/a

K

Hour in am/pm (0-11)

Number 0

n/a

h

Hour in am/pm (1-12)

Number 12

n/a

m

Minute in hour

Number 30

n/a

s

Second in minute

Number 55

n/a

S

Millisecond

Number 978

n/a

z

Time zone

General time zone

Pacific Standard Time, PST, or GMT-08:00

Z

Time zone

RFC 822 time zone

-0800