Flat File with random bad rows.

I have a text file that come from our client that is Column deliminated by ~ and row deliminated by {CR}{LF}.

There is a comment field that appearently is not cleaned up and has {CR}{LF} within the comment field.

I am new to SSIS and I'm wondering if there is a way to detect and correct the bad rows?

example file formet:

ORDERID~DATE~Comment~Address

1~2/3/2007~Some Comment~1234 oak st

2~2/3/2007~Some messed

up comment~345 oak st.

3~2/3/2007~Another comment~3214 asdf blvd.

Thank you.

You can use the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET RTrim function in a script run from the Script Component (configured as a transformation), to remove white space characters such as line feed and carriage return characters.

So the package data flow would include a Flat File Source connected to a Script Component. The output of the Script Component can then be sent to a destination or another transformation.

For information about the VB function, see "LTrim; RTrim; and Trim functions" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h9wz3dez(VS.71).aspx. For information about the Script Component, see "Extending the Data Flow with the Script Component" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms136118.aspx.

|||If you do not want to mess with scripting you could use the REPLACE function in a Derived Column task and replace the space with another character.

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How do you specify the line-feed character in the REPLACE function?

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Try

Code Snippet

\n

Generally, you use a \ character to escape special characters. \n indicates new line, \t indicates tab, etc.

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Thanks John, that works great

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If you enclose the escape character in quotes ("\n"), the expression will parse. For more information about using characters that require escape sequences in string literals, see "Literals (SSIS)" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141001.aspx.