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| sselva86 |
 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:38 am Post subject: Problem DFDL with for fixed length file |
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Hi mates ,
Need your help with DFDL . 
I am trying to develop DFDL to process fixed length file . Have 8 local elements on this DFDL . file is having is having more length than what I specified in length kind-length for last element . Because of that facing problem .
Getting below error while testing the DFDL .
CTDP3058E: Separator '%CR;%LF;%WSP*;' not found at offset '572' for sequence or choice within element '/DFDL_TAB_FIRST[1]'.
Have mentioned the option : document final terminator can be missing as YES , but still facing the problem .
can you please help to shed some light here . |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:40 am Post subject: Re: Problem DFDL with for fixed length file |
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| sselva86 wrote: |
| Have 8 local elements on this DFDL . file is having is having more length than what I specified in length kind-length for last element . |
Why? What's the extra length and why can't you just add a dummy element to the end of the DFDL schema to account for it?
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| sselva86 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for reply mate 
The problem is , file is not having specific length for last element . I gave the length for last element as 6 , project is expected value . but the file varies in each line for last element.
sample file :
125482 1218452 787458 653258 4596657
125482 1218452 787458 653258 459666458775
125482 1218452 787458 653258 4596671245
So i am not able to add dummy element with specific length . Is there any another way to terminate the line and come back to second line . |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| sselva86 wrote: |
| The problem is , file is not having specific length for last element . |
So explain to me, fairly slowly and using small words, how this is a "fixed length" file. Is this one of those new fangled "fixed but sort of changes a bit" files I heard Microsoft was working on?
| sselva86 wrote: |
| I gave the length for last element as 6 , project is expected value . |
So what you're saying (if I have this right) is that the file is a variable length file with 8 fixed length elements and a 9th element of indeterminate length that makes up the file record from the end of the 8th element to the delimiter at the end of the record, but the application / project for which this DFDL is intended only wishes to process the first 6 characters of this 9th element?
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| Is there any another way to terminate the line and come back to second line . |
Yes. Model the record as I've described above. There's no capability in DFDL to say "once you've got to the end of the model, ignore everything you might find unless it's a delimiter".
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:57 am Post subject: |
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So the 6th field on each line is not fixed length. It is terminated by the delimiter.
So...set lengthKind on the last element to 'delimited'.
Or did you try that already?
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| sselva86 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:06 am Post subject: |
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1) All other fields are expected to have fixed length except the last element .
So I was forced to use fixed length for this file .
2) yes , the last element is having unknown length and application wants only 6 chars from this .
3) So there is no other ways except to have dummy element ?
Thanks for your reply mate [/code] |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| sselva86 wrote: |
| 3) So there is no other ways except to have dummy element ? |
No, the DFDL model must describe the entire record. You need a dummy element as @kimbert suggests.
Enjoy his advice while it lasts..... 
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| 1) All other fields are expected to have fixed length except the last element. So I was forced to use fixed length for this file . |
Why do you think the 'Length Kind' property applies to the entire file? Have you tried setting it for last element?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| You need a dummy element as @kimbert suggests. |
Do I? I thought you suggested that. I suggested setting lengthKind=delimited on the last field
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:42 am Post subject: |
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 Just re-read the requirement.
Yes - you need a dummy element. And it should have lengthKind=delimited.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| kimbert wrote: |
Just re-read the requirement.
Yes - you need a dummy element. And it should have lengthKind=delimited. |
BAZINGA!
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| sselva86 |
| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:11 am Post subject: |
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, Made dummy element with delimited and it worked . you made my day mates . thank you so much  |
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