Fields tab

Fields tab

In the Fields tab, you can specify the information about the name and format of the fields being read from the text file.

Option	Description
Name	Name of the field.
Type	Type of the field can be either String, Date, or Number.
Format	See Number formats for a complete description of format symbols.
Position	The position is needed when processing the Fixed filetype. It is zero-based, so the first character is starting with position 0.
Length	The value of this field depends on format: Number Total number of significant figures in a number. String Total length of string. Date Total length of printed output of the string. For example, 4 only returns the year.
Precision	The value of this field depends on format: Number Number of floating point digits. String, Date, Boolean Unused.
Currency	Used to interpret numbers such as $10,000.00 or E5.000,00.
Decimal	A decimal point can be a period (.) as in 10,000.00 or it can be a comma (,) as in 5.000,00.
Group	A grouping can be a comma (,) as in 10,000.00 or a period (.) as in 5.000,00.
Null if	Treat this value as null.
Default	Default value in case the field in the text file was not specified (empty).
Trim type	Trim the type before processing. You can specify one of the following options: None Left Right Both
Repeat	If the corresponding value in this row is empty, repeat the one from the last time it was not empty (Yor N).

See [Understanding PDI data types and field metadata](../../../../Data%20Integration%20Perspective/Data%20Integration%20perspective%20in%20the%20PDI%20client/Advanced%20topics%20(PDI%20perspective)/Understanding%20PDI%20data%20types%20and%20field%20metadata.md) to maximize the efficiency of your transformation and job results.