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Informatica - replace characters in target

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Im working in a project which we create hundreds of xml's in informatica everyday, and all the data which is in the xml should be filtered, like removing all kind of special characters like * +.. You get the idea.

Adding regular expressions for every port is too complicated and not possible due the large amount of mapping we have.

I've added a custom property to the session XMLAnyTypeToString=Yes; and now i get some of the characters instead of &abcd, in their usual presentation (" + , ..).

I'm hoping for some custom property or change in XML target to remove these characters completely. any idea?

posted Feb 3, 2014 by Abhay Kulkarni

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You can make use of String.replaceAll method:

String   replaceAll(String regex, String replacement) 

Replaces each substring of this string that matches the given regular expression with the given replacement.

You can create a set of symbols you want to remove using regex, for example:

[*+"#$%&\(",.\)]

and then apply it to your string:

String myString = "this contains **symbols** like these $#%#$%";
String cleanedString = myString.replaceAll("[*+"#$%&]", "");

now you "cleanedString" is free of the symbols you've chosen.

answer Jun 12, 2014 by Shatark Bajpai
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