Array Parsing

[Anonymous]

Hi 

I have an array on my input rows that looks a little like this...

["xxrofile\/friend_of_owner","xxrofile\/vip","xx:service\/alert_manager"]

...and I want to split this to build out a tall, thin table in a database to store in 3 columns

row 1 - column1: id

row 1 - column2: profile

row 1 - column:3:friend_of_owner

row 2 - column1: id

row 2 - column2: profile

row 2 - column:3:vip

row 3 - column1: id

row 3 - column2: service

row 3 - column:3: alert_manager

Each row varies in array size and so some will transpose to 1 row, 2 rows, 3 and so on...

Any ideas how I can sort this data out in Talend Open Studio.

Thanks

Dave

[Anonymous]

Hi Dave,

    My assumption is that you are storing this input value in a String variable. Based on that, I created below job which was able to parse the data.

The first step is normalize the input string as shown below.

Next is the parsing of data using a tmap

column2 

row2.input.substring(row2.input.indexOf(":") + 1, row2.input.indexOf("\\")) 

column3

row2.input.substring(row2.input.indexOf("/") + 1,row2.input.lastIndexOf("\"")) 

Once you do this setup, you will be able to parse the data. 

Could you please mark the topic as resolved since I have answered your query? Kudos are also welcome 🙂

Warm Regards,

Nikhil Thampi