String operations

Description

With the String Operations transform, you can perform the following string operations on an incoming Hop field:

Trim (remove leading and/or trailing spaces).
Convert to upper or lowercase.
Pad (add leading or trailing extra characters).
Convert to initial capitalization.
Ignore escape characters.
Remove or return only numeric digits.
Remove special characters..

Options

Option	Description
Transform name	Name of the transform.
In stream field	Designate the field to transform.
Out stream field	Designate the name of the field to be created.
Trim type	Designate the trim type: none, left, right, or both.
Lower/Upper	Designate upper or lowercase.
Padding	Designate left or right padding.
Pad char	Designate the padding character.
Pad Length	Designate how long the padding will be.
InitCap	Transform to initial capitalization.
Escape	Define to Escape or Unescape XML, HTML, use CDATA or Escape SQL.
Digits	Designate whether to return remove, or do nothing to digits.
Remove Special character	Designate a special character to remove.

Option

Description

Transform name

Name of the transform.

In stream field

Designate the field to transform.

Out stream field

Designate the name of the field to be created.

Trim type

Designate the trim type: none, left, right, or both.

Lower/Upper

Designate upper or lowercase.

Padding

Designate left or right padding.

Pad char

Designate the padding character.

Pad Length

Designate how long the padding will be.

InitCap

Transform to initial capitalization.

Escape

Define to Escape or Unescape XML, HTML, use CDATA or Escape SQL.

Digits

Designate whether to return remove, or do nothing to digits.

Remove Special character

Designate a special character to remove.

Metadata Injection Support

All fields of this transform support metadata injection. You can use this transform with ETL Metadata Injection to pass metadata to your pipeline at runtime.