The fields to process

The fields to process table in the String Operations step

Use The fields to process table to specify which operations you want to apply to your input strings.

The table contains the following columns:

Column	Description
In stream field	Name of the field containing the string to be processed. Use Get fields to populate the table with fields from the incoming PDI data stream.
Out stream field	(Optional) A new outgoing PDI field containing the results of the specified string operations. If you do not specify a value for this field, the In stream field is replaced by the resulting string.
Trim type	Specifies whether to remove extra spaces before or after a field. You can trim a field on its left side, right side, or both. The default value is none.
Lower/Upper	Specifies whether to make all the characters in a field upper or lowercase. The default value is none.
Padding	Specifies whether to add extra characters before or after a field. You can pad a field on its left side or its right side. The default value is none.
Pad char	The extra character added to a field for padding.
Pad Length	The amount of extra characters used for padding.
InitCap	Specifies whether to capitalize the initial character in a field. The default value is N.
Escape	Specifies whether to use, ignore (escape), or process (unescape) if the following formats are present in a field: XML HTML CDATA SQL The default value is None.
Digits	Specifies whether to return only or remove numeric characters (digits). The default value is none.
Remove Special character	Specifies whether to remove any of the following special characters from a field: Carriage return (CR) Line feed (LF) Carriage return and line feed Horizontal tab Space The default value is none.