Hi, I think you might need to extend FileInputFormat ( or one of its derived classes) as well as implement a RecordReader.
regards On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > I need some guidance on how to handle files where we don't have > any proper delimiters or record boundaries. Actually I am trying to > process a set of file that are totally alien to me (SAS XPT files) > through MR. But one thing that is always fixed is that each time I > have to read 107 bytes from the line. Is it possible to use this > length as a delimiter for creating splits some how??And if so which > InputFormat would be appropriate??Many thanks. > > Regards, > Mohammad Tariq -- http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/
