Procedure
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Set the parameters of the main input flow, including the path and name of the file
to read and the number of header rows to skip.
In this example, the main input file provides a list of people names and US state names. The following shows an extract of the file content:name;state Andrew Kennedy;Mississippi Benjamin Carter;Louisiana Benjamin Monroe;West Virginia Bill Harrison;Tennessee Calvin Grant;Virginia Chester Harrison;Rhode Island Chester Hoover;Kansas Chester Kennedy;Maryland Chester Polk;Indiana Dwight Nixon;Nevada Dwight Roosevelt;Mississippi Franklin Grant;Nebraska -
Click the [...] button next to Edit schema to open the Schema dialog box and set the input schema.
According to the structure of the main input file, the input schema should contain two columns: name and state.
When done, click OK to close the dialog box and propagate the changes to the next component. -
Define the properties of the second tFileInputDelimited component similarly.
In this example, the reference input file provides a list of states and their two-letter codes. Accordingly, the reference input schema should have two columns: State and Code. -
Double-click the tReplaceList component
to open its Basic settings view to set the
operation to carry out.
