No NULL Export Handling Error in External Filter Stage

jerome_rajan · Post by **jerome_rajan** » Wed May 16, 2012 3:46 am

I am trying to run the grep command in an external filter stage.

grep -v "abc"

But I get an error saying

Field X is null but no null export handling is defined

Didn't know we had to handle nulls here too. How do I do this?

rameshrr3 · Post by **rameshrr3** » Wed May 16, 2012 12:56 pm

In Format Tab Set NullField Value = ''

jerome_rajan · Post by **jerome_rajan** » Wed May 16, 2012 9:06 pm

Are you sure that an external filter stage has a format tab? Because I don't see it. Guess you confused it with a sequential file stage

rameshrr3 · Post by **rameshrr3** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:14 am

Can you edit row metadata ? There you can set null field value

jerome_rajan · Post by **jerome_rajan** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:38 am

rameshrr3 wrote:Can you edit row metadata ? There you can set null field value

No