File Content Conversion Sender. Enclosured info

Question

Hi experts,
I have to read a plain file like this:
x
x
x
x
x
<START-OF-FILE>
a;b;c;d;
a;b;c;d;
a;b;c;d;
<END-OF-FILE>
x
x
x
x
x
Where 'x' means unuseful and unformatted lines, and 'a','b','c','d' are the fields to be parsed to xml.
I wonder whether there is a way, using FCC in the file sender adapter, to gather only the lines enclosured between '<START-OF-FILE>' and '<END-OF-FILE>'. There is no key field I can use.
Many thanks in advance,
Paco

Answer 1

Hi Francisco,
I think u need to write a UDF to achieve the requirement.
And, I think there is a possibility to do it using content conversion.
Use set NameA.fieldFixedLengths for the unused data in the file.
use NameA.fieldContentFormatting - Enter trim to remove all the leading and subsequent blanks for a value found. This is the default.
If there is any field length restriction use NameA.fieldFixedLengths.
NameA.fieldSeparator & NameA.endSeparator shoulf be used.
NameA.additionalLastFields
If the inbound structure has more fields than specified in the configuration then the XML outbound structure is created as follows:
○       ignore
Outbound structure only contains the fields in the inbound structure
○       error
Conversion is terminated due to the incomplete inbound structure. An error message is displayed.
The default value is ignore. If you have defined the NameA.fieldFixedLengths parameter, the default value is error.
I hope this info will help you.
Refer the below link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm
Regards,