Any suggestions would be appreciated! I'm using FME Desktop 2013 SP1.
Steve
I am trying to use wildcards/regular expressions to identify multiple FFS files to read through one FFS reader in the FME workbench. If I use something like "C:\\SomeDir\\*83.ffs", the FFS reader reads all files that end in 83.ffs in the SomeDir directory. I can even use "C:\\SomeDir\\*8\345].ffs" to read all files that end in 83.ffs, 84.ffs, or 85.ffs. Now I want to read all files that end in 11.ffs or 83.ffs. When I try "C:\\SomeDir\\*(11|83).ffs", I get an error message "Invalid FFS dataset directory 'C:\\SomeDir\\*(11|83).ffs'". I have also tried a comma, semi-colon, or space separated list of filenames to no avail. Is this possible or do I need to create two FFS readers?
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Hi Steve,
I think it's impossible to use such a regular expression in the reader settings. But we can set comma-separated two or more paths in the "Dataset" text box of a reader, so you can use the following expression instead: C:\\SomeDir\\*11.ffs,C:\\SomeDir\\*83.ffs To get this expression, you can edit "Dataset" text box directly, or do: 1) Click c+] button of the "Add Reader" dialog box to open advanced browser. 2) Add two "C:\\SomeDir" rows. 3) Change "File/Filter" column values to "*11.ffs" and "*83.ffs". 4) Click cOK] to close the browser. Takashi
Thanks for the help Takashi. Since I am using a Python script to generate the fully pathed file name, my return value from the script needs to match the format genrated by entering the two lines in the advanced file browser dialog:
""C:\\SomeDir\\*11.ffs" "C:\\SomeDir\\*83.ffs""
Hi Steve,
consider doing the wildcard matching in your python script and then returning the complete list of files to process, without any wildcards.
You can use the module glob to do this quite easily.
David