Writes data to a fixed-width file using designated field positions. The field specification consists of colon (:) separated field entries. Each field entry is of the form: name,start position,size.
Properties
File
Click the folder icon and browse to the file to which you want to output the data, then click Choose.
To create a new file, click the folder icon and navigate to the folder where you want to output the file, then enter a name for the file in the Filename field and click Choose.
A value is required for this property.
FieldPositions
Specify a colon-separated field specification. Each entry is of the form: name,start position,size.
For example: FirstName,0,10:LastName,10,20:Salary,30,10.
A value is required for this property.
RecordDelimiter
Optionally specify a string or character that will separate consecutive rows or records in the output file.
Use \n for newline (Unix style), \r\n for carriage return newline (Windows style).
The default value is blank, in which case there will be no delimiter used, only the record width.
WriteHeader
Optionally specify whether to write a single record header row of the field names (truncated to field width if necessary).
The default value is False.
RecordWidth
Optionally specify the size of each record in bytes.
If unspecified, the record will be as long as the largest (start+size) specification in the FieldPositions.
Padding
Optionally specify a byte value used to pad data in fields that are not long enough for their specification. Use \<octal> notation to specify non-printable characters, for example, \0 is NUL, \40 is space.
The default value is \0.
NullValue
Optionally specify what to output when the value of a field is NULL.
The default value is blank.
LongField
Optionally specify the behavior if the data in a field is longer than the field specification. Choose from:
- Truncate - Truncates the field.
- Truncate and Log - Truncates the field and records this action in the log file.
- Error - An error is generated.
The default value is Truncate.
FileExistsBehavior
Optionally specify what happens if the file to write to already exists on the file system.
Choose from:
- Error - The node will error.
- Overwrite - The target file will be overwritten.
The default value is Error.
Enabled
Optionally specify whether the node is enabled or disabled. You can either choose from True or False, or reference another property (see Using derived property values) which will be evaluated to a true/false value.
Disabled nodes are not executed, even if they are selected to run.
The default value is True.
LogLevel
Optionally specify the level at which non-fatal messages are logged. The lower the level, the more information will be recorded in the log file.
Choose from:
- 0 - Information
- 1 - Low
- 2 - Medium
- 3 - High
- 4 - Fatal
The default value is 2 (Medium), which can be changed in the ls_brain_node.prop configuration file, by modifying the property ls.brain.node.logLevel.
Inputs and outputs
Inputs: in1.
Outputs: None.