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Folks,

I need to scour some file shares with a python script to identify any data files.

I would like to exclude 'non data' files and it occurs to me that one way of doing this would be to compare file extensions with a list of format-specific file extensions that are used by FME Readers...

The Knowledge Base does list file formats (https://www.safe.com/fme/formats-matrix/ ) but doesn't specify the associated file extensions.

Does anyone know if there is a matrix that lists the file extensions associated with each FME Reader?

Many Thanks, Graham

Best answer by redgeographics

Check the formats.db file in your FME installation directory (it's a csv), that has a list of all supported formats as well as their extensions.

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Check the formats.db file in your FME installation directory (it's a csv), that has a list of all supported formats as well as their extensions.

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redgeographics wrote:

Check the formats.db file in your FME installation directory (it's a csv), that has a list of all supported formats as well as their extensions.

Fabulous - Many Thanks!

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Following redgeographics' tip, I have pushed a python script up to GitHub - this reads the FME formats.db file and produces a CSV file breaking out each of the file formats that can be read by FME in a digestible format.

 

https://github.com/spatialcase/Python-Misc

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