loadTextEx

loadTextEx(dbHandle, tableName, partitionColumns, filename, [delimiter], [schema], [skipRows=0], [transform], [sortColumns], [atomic=false], [arrayDelimiter], [containHeader], [arrayMarker])

dbHandle the distributed database where the imported data will be saved. The database can be either in the distributed file system or an in-memory database.

tableName a string indicating the name of the table with the imported data.

partitionColumns a string scalar/vector indicating partitioning column(s). For sequential partition, partitionColumns is "" as it doesn't need a partitioning column. For composite partition, partitionColumns is a string vector.

filename is the input text file name with its absolute path. Currently only .csv files are supported.

delimiter (optional) is a STRING scalar indicating the table column separator. It can consist of one or more characters, with the default being a comma (',').

skipRows (optional) is an integer between 0 and 1024 indicating the rows in the beginning of the text file to be ignored. The default value is 0.

transform (optional) is a unary function. The parameter of the function must be a table.

sortColumns (optional) is a string scalar/vector indicating the columns based on which the table is sorted.

arrayDelimiter (optional) is a single character indicating the delimiter for columns holding the array vectors in the file. Since the array vectors cannot be recognized automatically, you must use the schema parameter to update the data type of the type column with the corresponding array vector data type before import.

containHeader (optional) a Boolean value indicating whether the file contains a header row. The default value is NULL. See loadText for the detailed determining rules.

arrayMarker is a string containing 2 characters or a CHAR pair. These two characters represent the identifiers for the left and right boundaries of an array vector. The default identifiers are double quotes (").

• It cannot contain spaces, tabs (\t), or newline characters (\t or \n).

• It cannot contain digits or letters.

• If one is a double quote ("), the other must also be a double quote.

• If the identifier is ', ", or \, a backslash ( \ ) escape character should be used as appropriate. For example, arrayMarker="\"\"".

• If delimiter specifies a single character, arrayMarker cannot contain the same character.

• If delimiter specifies multiple characters, the left boundary of arrayMarker cannot be the same as the first character of delimiter.

Load a text file into DolphinDB database.

If dbHandle is specified and is not empty string "": load a text file to a distributed database. The result is a table object with metadata of the table.

If dbHandle is empty string "" or unspecified: load a text file as a partitioned in-memory table. For this usage, when we define dbHandle with function database, the parameter directory must also be the empty string "" or unspecified.

If parameter transform is specified, we need to first execute createPartitionedTable and then load the data. The system will apply the function specified in parameter transform and then save the results into the database.

Function loadTextEx and function loadText share many common features, such as whether the first row is treated as the header, how the data types of columns are determined, how the system adjusts illegal column names, etc. For more details, please refer to function loadText.

n=10000
ID=rand(100, n)
dates=2017.08.07..2017.08.11
date=rand(dates, n)
vol=rand(1..10 join int(), n)
t=table(ID, date, vol)
saveText(t, "C:/DolphinDB/Data/t.txt");

db = database(directory="dfs://rangedb", partitionType=RANGE, partitionScheme=0 51 101)
pt=loadTextEx(dbHandle=db,tableName=`pt, partitionColumns=`ID, filename="/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.txt");

db = database(directory="dfs://rangedb", partitionType=RANGE, partitionScheme=0 51 101, engine='TSDB')
pt=loadTextEx(dbHandle=db, tableName=`pt, partitionColumns=`ID, filename="/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.txt", sortColumns=`ID`date);

db = database("dfs://rangedb")
pt = loadTable(db, `pt);

Example: Load t.txt into a DFS database with a composite domain.

dbDate = database(directory="", partitionType=VALUE, partitionScheme=2017.08.07..2017.08.11)
dbID=database(directory="", partitionType=RANGE, partitionScheme=0 51 101)
db = database(directory="dfs://compoDB", partitionType=COMPO, partitionScheme=[dbDate, dbID])
pt = loadTextEx(dbHandle=db,tableName=`pt, partitionColumns=`date`ID, filename="/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.txt");

Example: Load t.txt into a partitioned in-memory table with value domain on date.

db = database(directory="", partitionType=VALUE, partitionScheme=2017.08.07..2017.08.11)
pt = db.loadTextEx(tableName="", partitionColumns=`date, filename="/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.txt");

pt.sortBy!(`ID`x);

dbDate = database(directory="", partitionType=VALUE, partitionScheme=2017.08.07..2017.08.11)
dbID=database(directory="", partitionType=RANGE, partitionScheme=0 51 101)
db = database(directory="dfs://compoDB", partitionType=COMPO, partitionScheme=[dbDate, dbID]);

pt=db.createPartitionedTable(table=t, tableName=`pt, partitionColumns=`date`ID)
pt=loadTextEx(dbHandle=db, tableName=`pt, partitionColumns=`date`ID, filename="/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.txt", transform=nullFill!{,0});

Example: Load array vectors

bid = array(DOUBLE[], 0, 20).append!([1.4799 1.479 1.4787, 1.4796 1.479 1.4784, 1.4791 1.479 1.4784])
ask = array(DOUBLE[], 0, 20).append!([1.4821 1.4825 1.4828, 1.4818 1.482 1.4821, 1.4814 1.4818 1.482])
TradeDate = 2022.01.01 + 1..3
SecurityID = rand(`APPL`AMZN`IBM, 3)
t = table(SecurityID as `sid, TradeDate as `date, bid as `bid, ask as `ask)
t;
saveText(t,filename="/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.csv",delimiter=',',append=true)

db = database(directory="dfs://testDB", partitionType=VALUE, partitionScheme=`APPL`AMZN`IBM, engine='TSDB')
path = "/home/DolphinDB/Data/t.csv"
schema = extractTextSchema(path);
update schema set type = "DOUBLE[]" where name="bid" or name ="ask"
loadTextEx(dbHandle=db, tableName=`t, partitionColumns=`sid, filename=path, schema=schema, arrayDelimiter=",", sortColumns=`sid`date);
select * from t;