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Anonymous
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How to import a flat file with many instances

Hi,

I'm trying to import a metadata file for invoice creation.

There are two versions, one with only one invoice, and another with n invoices.

They both have in common that I have to transform them, and rotate them right to get the Fieldname / Data.

Layout Example without transform:

0HCDLNRE DE

0HCTTXDE Deutschland

0HCTTXRE Deutschland

0HDACUA1 asdf

0HDACUA3 gerg

0HDACUA4 Fsdf

Importing the files with only one invoice is quiet easy, but I am not able to import the files with many invoices.

Each new invoice begins with the following header:

BEGINOIS1990H

*TIME 20170818082841

*LANGUAGE DE

*ZZCONO 0

*ZZDIVI   

*ZZFACI 100

*ZZWHLO 100

*LAYOUT A4 

I would have to tell Qlikview to create a line feed before the next instance of "BEGINOIS1990H" begins I guess.


Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this task?

For testing I attached an example with a header and 2 invoiceheaders

Thanks in advance

12 Replies
sasiparupudi1
Master III
Master III

May be  You can do something like below

RawData:

LOAD @1,

     @2

FROM

[\\lnn63f1\u_t1487402003\sasidp\My Documents\Qlikview\TST Invoice.txt]

(txt, codepage is 1252, no labels, delimiter is '\t', msq);

// exit script;

set vtable='T1';

For i=0 to NoOfRows('RawData')

LET vField1= FieldValue('@1',$(i));

If '$(vField1)'='BEGINInvoice' THEN

For j=1 to 5

LET vField$(j)= FieldValue('@1',$(i)+$(j));

LET vData$(j)= FieldValue('@2',$(i)+$(j));

    Next j

    $(vtable):

    LOAD

     '$(vData1)' AS '$(vField1)',

     '$(vData2)' AS '$(vField2)',

     '$(vData3)' AS '$(vField3)',

     '$(vData4)' AS '$(vField4)',

     '$(vData5)' AS '$(vField5)'

   AutoGenerate 1;

END IF;

Next i;

Drop Table RawData;

Anonymous
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Author

Works perfectly fine.

And with the restricted selection its performing well.

Thanks a lot!

MarcoWedel

Glad it helped.

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thanks

regards

Marco