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Splitters initiate a recurring cycle that stops only when the original file has been completely
processed. When a given splitter creates a file, it hands it down to the task that follows, and all
the tasks on the same branch are performed until the output task. Then the splitter task creates
yet another file that is again handed down to the next task, and so forth until the cycle ends
(when there is no more data in the original file).
If the process merges the split data with a document, the splitter must not alter the structure of
the data file. In other words, each split file must have the same structure as the original files,
otherwise the PlanetPress Design documents to which they will be sent will not be able to
extract the data correctly and the merging process will fail.
Warning
Splitters do not modify the metadata that is currently active within your process. This
means that, if you are intending to use metadata along with a process using splitters, you
can either use the "Metadata Sequencer" on page474 instead of a splitter, or (re)create
the metadata after the splitter.
About Using Emulations with Splitters
When an emulation is used with a splitter action task, the job file is emulated, cut to pieces and
de-emulated. Most times, the emulation/de-emulation process is completely transparent.
However, in some cases, there may be minute differences.
When using the ASCII or Channel Skip emulation, if there are missing line feed characters
(when lines end with a single carriage return in ASCII, or when lines start with a No line feed
channel in Channel Skip), the output data will be different from the input data, but the change
will not be significant.
Let us imagine that a splitter action task processes the following data file using the ASCII
emulation:
Data line1 of page 1<cr><lf>
Data line2 of page 1<cr>
Last data line of page 1<cr><lf>
Data line1 of page 2<cr><lf>
...and so forth...
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