Reading File pattern

santhoshrao.kuttuva · Post by **santhoshrao.kuttuva** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:48 am

Hi all

In my source sequential stage properties I have specified Read method as File Pattern.

Whether I can specify the file pathname with any regular expressions.

For e.g., "X:\DS\sample.regular expression"

My actual file name will be like this "sample.20090405"

Please advice with some simple examples.. Thanks in advance..

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:54 am

Short answer is "yes" and quickest way to test would be to try it.

santhoshrao.kuttuva · Post by **santhoshrao.kuttuva** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:12 am

chulett wrote:Short answer is "yes" and quickest way to test would be to try it. ...

yes, I tried specifying the file name as

"sample.(19|20)\d\d[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])"

but i cant able to view the data... Please help

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:50 am

Ack... mea culpa... was thinking 'wildcards' when you said 'regular expressions'. Does that work from your O/S?