I recall at some point the topic of supporting a regex format record reader came up, and I thought that Jacques said that he had this built into the test framework and that at some point it should find its way into a release use.
The closest ticket I can find is: DRILL-739 and I don't think that quite covers the request. Just wondering if there is any status on this. To clarify the topic it would be to create a file format where you could define a regular expression so that when text files are loaded they can be parsed based on that regex. Effectively the grouping from the regular expression would result in columns[n] for each record.
