How to parse and validate text file in ssis without scripting

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How to parse and validate text file in ssis without scripting

rashid nizam

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September 2, 2008 at 1:17 am

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Hi,
Wondering if somebody dont know the .Net lanaguage and he has to develop a package in which he has to parse the text file and validate the data and then create a standard out put xml file, is that possible without writing the code (.Net Language), using just built in components of SSIS and doing these tasks in memory.....without loading text file data in the database 1st.
Thanks

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Dave23 Hall of Fame Points: 3903 More actions · Answer 1

If you know the fields into which the file is to be parsed, you can use a derived column transformation to validate field contents for type, range, domain, etc. You can also use lookup components for domain validation for individual fields. Sorry, but I can't help with building an XML output file. All of my SSIS experience is with ASCII -> SQL Server table scenarios.

rashid nizam SSCommitted Points: 1605 More actions · Answer 2

Hi thanks for the reply....well i have learned some basics of .Net to parse a file...however the way u told me ...i will look into that...

but thanx any way for feedback

Rashid

Joshi-400802 SSC Veteran Points: 212 More actions · Answer 3

Hi, I would like to remove first few commented lines before I load my text files into SQL table.

please tell me how to write code in SSIS (script task) to remove commented lines (starts with #).

I am running vbscript code, but it is taking too long to parse the text files.

Thank you

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 4

Joshi-400802 (3/21/2011)
Hi, I would like to remove first few commented lines before I load my text files into SQL table.
please tell me how to write code in SSIS (script task) to remove commented lines (starts with #).
I am running vbscript code, but it is taking too long to parse the text files.
Thank you

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