Handling Empty Lines When Composing a Flat File

If the Flat File composer receives an empty class, it produces an empty line.

The options ignoreEmptyRecords and ignoreEmptyStrings on the flat file record definition only apply to flat file parsing. For flat file composing they have no effect.

For flat file composing, you need to check if the flat file record contains data when building the flat file structure, e.g. by using the exists() operation when appending records to the data object.

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Other Common Flat File Issues:

Flat File With Header Lines

Handling Empty Lines When Composing a Flat File

Handling of White Spaces When Parsing Flat Files With Fixed Length

Handling Quotes When Composing a Flat File

Mapping of Hierarchical Record Structures

Parsing Flat File Records Without Data

Using Patterns to Separate Attributes