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Overview

To use a file collector to load data from a binary file, you must specify the file's structure or grammar. A binary file collector requires a grammar to define the file so that the collector can extract the data. Binary file grammars are defined in XML. With a binary file grammar you can define the structure of any binary or ASCII file that has a definable structure. The target nodes are the ones that will generate an output record.

To configure a File Collector to load data from a binary file you must:

• specify the grammar in the File Format Description section
• specify a set of target nodes in the Stream Item Node field.

The topic Binary File Grammar gives details of:

• creating binary file grammars
• creating File Columns in a file collector that reads binary files, in the section Creating the File Columns for the File Collector.
• details of using the data read from binary files in Streams, in the section Referring to File Columns in Stream Attribute Expressions.

Grammar

A binary file grammar is an XML document that specifies the structure of a binary or ASCII file. 

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