Getting Data In

multiple delimeter in transforms.conf is not working

abhayneilam
Contributor

Hi,

I have a data as :

abhay|vikram|singh|26|kolkata
murari|kumar|singh|28|mumbai

and in my transfoms.conf I have written:
DELIMS="|","|"
but it is not working, it is only working for "|" delimeter but not for "|" delimeter,

How to make it work please let me know because if I dont use "|" as a delimeter then

singh|26 and
singh|28 both will will be considered as a single field value but "singh" is a separate value and "26" is a separate value

Please help

Thanks in advance

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Lucas_K
Motivator

I think you should just be defining your delim ONCE not sure why you have it defined twice.
I believe you only specify it in that format when you want to key:pair value your data (which it doesn't appear you want to do).

So try something like the following in your transforms.conf
[my-extractions]
DELIMS="|"
FIELDS="first_name","middle_name","surname","age","location"

This should split out all of your fields.

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