Mohammad, > But it seems I am not doing things in correct way. Need some guidance.
What do you mean by the above? What is your written code exactly expected to do and what is it not doing? Perhaps since you ask for a code question here, can you share it with us (pastebin or gists, etc.)? For skipping 8 lines, if you are using splits, you need to detect within the mapper or your record reader if the map task filesplit has an offset of 0 and skip 8 line reads if so (Cause its the first split of some file). On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a flat file in which data is stored as lines of 107 > bytes each. I need to skip the first 8 lines(as they don't contain any > valuable info). Thereafter, I have to read each line and extract the > information from them, but not the line as a whole. Each line is > composed of several fields without any delimiter between them. For > example, the first field is of 8 bytes, second of 2 bytes and so on. I > was trying to reach each line as a Text value, convert it into string > and using String.subring() method to extract the value of each field. > But it seems I am not doing things in correct way. Need some > guidance. Many thanks. > > Regards, > Mohammad Tariq -- Harsh J
