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Wildcard Characters

When you run a mapping to read data from an Avro, flat, JSON, ORC, or Parquet file, you can use wildcard characters to specify the source file name.

To use wildcard characters for the source file name, select the source type as Directory
and enable the

Allow Wildcard Characters

option in the advanced read properties of the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 data object.

When you run a mapping in the native environment or on the Spark and Databricks Spark engine to read an Avro, JSON, ORC, Parquet, or flat file, you can use the

and

wildcard characters for the source file name.

You can use the following wildcard characters:

? (Question mark): The question mark character (?) allows one occurrence of any character. For example, if you enter the source file name as
a?b.txt
, the Data Integration Service reads data from files with the following names:
a1b.txt

a2b.txt

aab.txt

acb.txt
* (Asterisk): The asterisk mark character (*) allows zero or more than one occurrence of any character. If you enter the source file name as
a*b.txt
, the Data Integration Service reads data from files with the following names:
aab.txt

a1b.txt

ab.txt

abc11b.txt

When you read data from the Avro, JSON, ORC, Parquet, or flat file that contains a colon (:) character in the file name, the mapping fails.

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Wildcard Characters

Wildcard Characters