topic Re: Is there a way of writing positional fields without using tFileOutputPositional? in Talend Studio

Is there a way of writing positional fields without using tFileOutputPositional?

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:52:41 GMT

Hi!

I'm looking to create a job that combines schema fields into a positional string - so I want the reverse of tExtractPositionalFields but there doesn't seem to be a "write" positional fields component.

Using tMap or tXMLMap I could do this with a set of variables and brute force concatenation, but that seems very "programmatic" rather than within the spirit of Talend DI.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Screwtape.

Re: Is there a way of writing positional fields without using tFileOutputPositional?

vapukov — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:19:29 GMT

is tFileOutputPositional what are You looking for?

as alternative tMap with LPAD or RPAD also simple way

Re: Is there a way of writing positional fields without using tFileOutputPositional?

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:49:10 GMT

Hello,

I update this topic cause I am trying to do exactly the same thing.

Is there a way to merge several columns in one positional string, so doing the reverse of tExtractPositional field, without using files ?

Did anyone ever find a way to do that ? I looked for all Talend positional components but couldn't find one that can answer this need.

Thanks in advance