String operations

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Description

Apply operations, such as trimming, padding, and others to the string value.

Option

Definition

Step name

The name of this step as it appears in the transformation workspace.

In stream field

Designate the field to transform.

Out stream field

Designate the name of the field to be created.

Trim type

Designate the trim type: none, left, right, or both.

Lower/Upper

Designate upper or lowercase.

Padding

Designate left or right padding.

Pad char

Designate the padding character.

Pad Length

Designate how long the padding will be.

InitCap

Transform to initial capitalization.

Escape

Define to Escape or Unescape XML, HTML, use CDATA or Escape SQL.

Digits

Designate whether to return remove, or do nothing to digits.

Remove Special character

Designate a special character to remove.