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Add data column AND populate by sub directory name

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April 4, 2013
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artwork21

Hello,

I have a bunch of mapinfo line.tab files that I want to merge together. Each .tab file is in a seperate sub directory e.g.

/test/one/line.tab

/test/two/line.tab

/test/three/line.tab

I want to add a 'dir' text column to each layer before merging that is populated with the files sub directory name e.g.

line.tab layer in the one directory will have a new column added 'dir' and be populated with value 'one'

line.tab layer in the two directory will have a new column added 'dir' and be populated with value 'two'

...etc

I see that hte AttributeCreator transformer can populate data columns, however I'm unsure how to get the data in the format as stated above.

thank you

Best answer by fmelizard

Hi,

expose the fme_dataset and use the FilenamePartExtractor.

Hope this helps

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