Unpack parser plugin for Embulk

Unpack 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

• format: Unpack format string. See String#unpack (string, required)
• strip_whitespace: Strip whitespace from parsed values. (bool, default: true)
• columns: declares the list of columns, unpacked values will be assigned to these in order.

Example

in:
  type: any file input plugin type
  parser:
    type: unpack
    format: a2a5@10a4 #Extracts three values, first 2 chars, then 5 chars and lastly 4 chars from position 10.
    columns:
    - {name: first, type: string}
    - {name: second, type: string}
    - {name: third, type: string}

Install plugin

$ embulk gem install embulk-parser-unpack