https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Problem-with-Fixed-width-Input-File-tFileInputPositional/m-p/2305301#M76970 tFileinputPositional has a "Reject" connector you can use that to reject such records. you can read more about <A href="http://dwetl.com/2015/05/12/connect-component-with-triggers-and-rows/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">triggers and connection here.&nbsp;</A> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:14:01 GMT Anonymous 2015-10-28T12:14:01Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Problem-with-Fixed-width-Input-File-tFileInputPositional/m-p/2305300#M76969 <P>Hi,<BR />I am supposed to read a fixed width input file and I am doing so with the&nbsp;tFileInputPositional component. The length of this file's first column is 15.&nbsp;<BR />For one row of data, the first column in the input file is of length 12. This is obviously a wrong record. When this record is passed to the output file, the first column takes the first 3 characters of the 2nd column (to adhere to length 15) that makes the output completely wrong. I want to know how can I reject this record or make changes in the job in such a way that the output comes correctly.<BR />For the same input file in DataStage, this particular record was getting rejected from the input stage (Sequential FileStage) itself.&nbsp;<BR />Below is the screen shot of the o/p data :</P> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:14:40 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Problem-with-Fixed-width-Input-File-tFileInputPositional/m-p/2305300#M76969 Anonymous 2015-10-28T07:14:40Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Problem-with-Fixed-width-Input-File-tFileInputPositional/m-p/2305301#M76970 tFileinputPositional has a "Reject" connector you can use that to reject such records. you can read more about <A href="http://dwetl.com/2015/05/12/connect-component-with-triggers-and-rows/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">triggers and connection here.&nbsp;</A> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:14:01 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Problem-with-Fixed-width-Input-File-tFileInputPositional/m-p/2305301#M76970 Anonymous 2015-10-28T12:14:01Z