Handling junk characters in XI

Question

Hello,
I have developed a Inbound File-XI-SAP scenario .Where i have mapping failure in XI .I did my analysis and found that Business is sending us a file alogn with extra empty line as shown below
  ---> file should be limited to end of this line -->   ";,99100;,99100;241;172;41;"9788761920041       ";
> this is extra line which i believe is new line character .This is causing my mapping to fail --> 
So my question is how do we handle as i tried to write a batch program to handle this but in unix this BOX character as shown above is not there and file when read in unix is perfect.
Other way i tried is to open in different encoding but this is still showing up there .
So can we deal this using within XI ? If yes , plesae let me know .
Thanks for all help .

Answer 1

You can have java mapping program to get rid of the junk characters:
You can refer the following sample code to achive it:
public class FixEncoding implements StreamTransformation {
public void execute(InputStream in, OutputStream out)
throws StreamTransformationException {
String instr;
instr = parseIStreamToString(in);
instr = instr.replace( '&', '&' );
out.write(instr.getBytes());
then in your interface mapping, put the jave mapping in front of normal mapping program.
Regards.
Liang
Edited by: Liang Ji on Mar 12, 2009 4:36 PM