How to split a big file into several small files using XI

Question

Hi,
Is there any way to split a huge file into small files using XI.
Thanks
Mukesh

Answer 1

There is a how to guide for using file adapters, an "sdn search" will get you the document.
Based on that , read a file into XI, Use strings to store the file content and do the split
here is some code to get you started
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Pseudocode:
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// This can be passed in - however many output files to which the source is split
numOutputFiles = 5;
// Create the same number of filehandles as numOutputFiles specifies
open file1, file2, file3, file4, file5;
// Create an Array to hold the references to those filehandles
Array[5] fileHandles = {file1, file2, file3, file5, file5};
// Initialize a loop counter
int loopCounter = 0;
// a temporary holder to "point" the output stream to the correct output file
File currentOutputFile = null;
// loop through your input file
while (sourceFile.nextLine != null)
loopCounter++;
if (loopCounter == (numOutputFiles +1) // you've reached 5, loop back
loopCounter = 1;
currentOutputFile = fileHandles[loopCounter]; // gets the output file at that index of the array
currentOutputFile.write(sourceFile.nextLine);
regards
krishna