Special Character Remover

A Pentaho Kettle Plugin to clean your input stream off special character

• Plugin version: 1.1.0
• Author: Rishu Shrivastava
• Email: rishu.shrivastava@gmail.com

Description:

Special Character Remover is a Pentaho DI Step Plugin which aims at cleaning your input data off the Special Characters or junk values. Use pre-defined algorithms in the Step to remove special characters. Users can also use his/her custom regular expression codes to work with the input stream.

A detailed explaination has been provided in the wordpress blog post as below:

Link to wordpress Blog

Features:

As compared to the version 1.0.0 of this plugin, please find below the list of features added to the recent release:

• Pre-defined algorithms to the plugin, which aims at minimal coding effort in cleaning up the data.
• Custom codes are also added so that the user has the flexibility to write his/her code using regex.

Follow the link here for more.

Installing the plugin:

1. Download the Zip file from the Marketplace Github folder:

Click Here to download

2. Simply copy the contents of the folder into :

/pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/plugins/steps/SpecialCharacterRemover path of you Pentaho Installation.

3. Start/ReStart your Pentaho DI

4. Open a new Transformation

5. Open "Experimental" tab. You will find a step named "Special Character Remover".

Its done. Drag and Drop the Step and enjoy :)