Extract data from a csv file and save in a new file

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nishantmathur

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Post by nishantmathur » Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:18 am
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Hi,

We have a requirement to split a csv (|) file into multiple files based on data in file

For example all lines with code "A100" goes to a file with name "A100_extract"
and all lines with code "A200" goes to another file with name "A200_extract"

Is this possible to do in director?

Thanks
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Support_Rick

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Post by Support_Rick » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:47 am
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Nishant,

This situation is a good reason why the modifyRowset Task was added to GoAnywhere Director in version 4.6. Below, I provided an example of how this can be accomplished utilizing that task.

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A101| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A101| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A102| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A102| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A101| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A102| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A101| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A102| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
A101| Field 2| Field 3| Field 4| Field 5
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<project name="Filter Pipe Delimited File" mainModule="Main" version="2.0" logLevel="debug">

	<module name="Main">

		<readCSV label="Read PIPE file" inputFile="C:\Pipe Delimited File.csv" outputRowSetVariable="MyData" fieldDelimiter="pipe" version="1.0" />

		<modifyRowSet label="Create A101 Rowset" inputRowSetVariable="${MyData}" outputRowSetVariable="MyA101Data" existingColumns="true" includeRow="${MyData[1] == &apos;A101&apos;}" version="1.0">
			<modifyColumn index="1" name="C1" value="${MyData[1]}" />
		</modifyRowSet>

		<modifyRowSet label="Create A102 Rowset" inputRowSetVariable="${MyData}" outputRowSetVariable="MyA102Data" existingColumns="true" includeRow="${MyData[1] == &apos;A102&apos;}" version="1.0">
			<modifyColumn index="1" name="C1" value="${MyData[1]}" />
		</modifyRowSet>

		<writeCSV label="Create A101 File" inputRowSetVariable="${MyA101Data}" outputFile="C:\MyA101Data.csv" whenFileExists="overwrite" fieldDelimiter="pipe" version="1.0" />

		<writeCSV label="Create A102 File" inputRowSetVariable="${MyA102Data}" outputFile="C:\MyA102Data.csv" whenFileExists="overwrite" fieldDelimiter="pipe" version="1.0" />

	</module>

</project>
If your unique "known" values (from column 1) are available via a rowset (read from a Table, or CSV, etc) you could easily do this inside a ForEach loop and substitute the compare values with variables.

Please let us know if you have any other questions..
Rick Elliott
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