Fixed width parser plugin for Embulk

Fixed width parser. Useful for parsing fixed width format files. Can be used to transform FirstSecond Third line to {key: "First", key2: "Second", key3: "Third"}

Overview

• Plugin type: parser
• Guess supported: no

Configuration

• columns: declares the list of columns, their types and positions as range in input. Values will be assigned to these in order.
• strip_whitespace: Strip whitespace from parsed values. (bool, default: true)

Example

in:
  type: any file input plugin type
  parser:
    type: unpack
    columns:
    - {name: first, type: string, pos: 0..1}
    - {name: second, type: string, pos: 3..7}
    - {name: third, type: string, pos: 10..12}

Install plugin

$ embulk gem install embulk-parser-fixed