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In OL Connect jobs, data is normally extracted from a data file using the "Execute Data
Mapping" on page628 task. That task stores the extracted data in records which can then be
merged with a template.
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571 instead of a splitter, or (re)create
the Metadata after the splitter.
About using emulations with data splitters
An emulation specifies how to interpret a data file (see "About data emulation" on page60.)
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...
Once split, the first file generated by the action task would look like this:
Data line1 of page 1<cr><lf>
Data line2 of page 1<cr>
Data line2 of page 1<cr><lf>
Last data line of page 1<cr>
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