Fixed length with arrays?

[end-user]

I have a situation where I'd like to parse a flat file without linebreaks that also contains "sub" arrays. Is there a way to specify that as a parser definition? (I may not have the right syntax for your PZMAP) For example, if I had a definition like this:

<record name="owner">
    <column  length="5"/>
    <record name="pet" length="5" repeat="3" />
</record>

And a dataset like this (represents 2 records of 20 characters, pipes added for visibility):

|AliceTiny Fluff     Bob  Zap  Frog Wooly|

Would create:

<owner name="Alice">
    <pet>Tiny</pet>
    <pet>Fluff</pet>
</owner>
<owner name="Bob">
    <pet>Zap</pet>
    <pet>Frog</pet>
    <pet>Wooly</pet>
</owner>

[benoitx]

Hi

I do not know if it is possible but I'd assume not.

A workaround would be to define pet1,pet2 and pet3 in the XML definition and then call those.

Also you could define a Pets subsection with a discriminator. A common type of record could be embedded / different, eg if a record starts with 'X' then the format should be a record X; if it starts with 'Y' then follow the Y record.

I hope this helps

Feel free to submit a patch or pull request if you want to develop this 'repeat' mechanism but I'm not too sure how the getString('xxx') would work and it has to work with CSV and other delimited formats too.

Benoit

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On 8 Aug 2016, at 17:15, Oblio notifications@github.com wrote:

I have a situation where I'd like to parse a flat file without linebreaks that also contains "sub" arrays. Is there a way to specify that as a parser definition? (I may not have the right syntax for your PZMAP) For example, if I had a definition like this:

And a dataset like this (represents 2 records of 20 characters, pipes added for visibility):

|AliceTiny Fluff Bob Zap Frog Wooly|
Would create:

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