Text

Reads and writes plain text files.

Writing

All values of each entity will be written as plain text. Multiple values per entity are separated by spaces. Each entity will be written to a new line.

Reading

The entire text will be read as a single entity with a single property. Note that even if multiple entities have been written to this dataset before, those would still be read back as a single entity. The default type is document, the default path is text. Both values can be configured in the advanced section.

Parameter

File

The plain text file. May also be a zip archive containing multiple text files.

• ID: file
• Datatype: resource
• Default Value: None

Charset

The file encoding, e.g., UTF-8, UTF-8-BOM, ISO-8859-1

• ID: charset
• Datatype: string
• Default Value: UTF-8

Advanced Parameter

Type name

A type name that represents this file.

• ID: typeName
• Datatype: string
• Default Value: document

Property

The single property that holds the text.

• ID: property
• Datatype: string
• Default Value: text

ZIP file regex

If the input resource is a ZIP file, files inside the file are filtered via this regex.

• ID: zipFileRegex
• Datatype: string
• Default Value: .*

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