Whitespace removed in Content Conversion

Hey!
After content converting a flat file and running it through an xslt mapping, the java mapping need to find substrings within some fields.
It turns out the fields are suppressed, meaning the whitespace before and after values are missing.
Can this be fixed within the CC in the file adapter? I need these whitespaces to be there as I am accessing different values within the long string.
regards Ole

Hi,
I too have a similar issue, i tried viewing the input in notepad but even in that spaces are missed.
Could you suggest me on this.
Regards
Archanaa

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> With fixed lengths i get it working,
>
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<item>
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MAP TO:
<pos>
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I can't create a data type like this...
EDIT:
Remember, there can be documents with 1 or many positions... and the fieldname always is the same.... the datatype definition doesn't acceppt duplicate fieldnames and fields that are not in a defined sequence.
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Edited by: David Claes on Jul 10, 2008 2:11 PM

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>
venky adireddy wrote:
> Hi
> I am doing content conversion in sender file adapter.I want to remove " " in target file.
> I used row.enclosureSignEsc ""
> but its not working.
> can any one tell me how to use enclosure sign parameter.
>
> Source Flat file looks like:
>
> "A00",417,"SC9",20050101,100617,3229
> "B01","EA",20041231,39.4,"ACT","F","D"
> "B01","EA",20041231,38.7,"ACT","F","W"
> "B01","EA",20050101,39.4,"TOD","F","D"
> "B01","EM",20041231,39.3,"ACT","F","D"
> "B01","EM",20041231,38.7,"ACT","F","W"
> "Z99",50
>
> In the target i want like this:
>
> A00,417,SC9,20050101,100617,3229
> B01,EA,20041231,39.4,ACT,F,D
> B01,EA,20041231,38.7,ACT,F,W
> B01,EA,20050101,39.4,TOD,F,D
> B01,EM,20041231,39.3,ACT,F,D
> B01,EM,20041231,38.7,ACT,F,W
> Z99,50
>
>
>
> Thanks&Regards
> venkat.
THERE
there is no parameter to achieve what you want in FCC.
as mentioned earlier you will have to use a function to remove the "
you dont have to create a UDF you can use the standard text function available in XI - replaceString

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