[resolved] Split textfile into several files

[Anonymous]

Hi,

i have a input file with several blocks like this:

01[many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
01[many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
01[many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]

Every block has one head row. The goal ist to get an output file for every block starting with 01:

file1.txt

01[many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]

file2.txt

01[many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]

file3.txt

01[many numbers]]
02 [many numbers]
02 [many numbers]

Any ideas how to handle that?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi
You need to use tFlowToTerate to iterate each line one by one and set a dynamic output file name. For example:
tFileInputFullRow--main(row2)--tFlowToIterate--iterate--tjava-oncomponentok--tFixeFlowInput--main--tFileOutputDelimted

Define a context variable called blockID, integer type, set the default value as 0;
on tJava:
if(((String)globalMap.get("row2.line")).startsWith("01")){
context.blockID=context.blockID+1;
}

on tFixedFlowInput: get the current line, define one column with string type, set its value as:
(String)globalMap.get("row2.line")

on tFileOutputDelimited, set a dynamic file path, eg:
"D:/file/out"+context.blockID+".csv"

and check 'append' option.

[Anonymous]

Thx shong!