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María Carina Roldán
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María Carina Roldán

María Carina Roldán was born in Argentina and has a bachelor's degree in computer science. She started working with Pentaho back in 2006. She spent all these years developing BI solutions, mainly as an ETL specialist, and working for different companies around the world. Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires and works as an independent consultant. Carina is the author of Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE, published by Packt in December 2017. She has also authored other books on Pentaho, all of them published by Packt.
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Generating different kinds of files


After loading and transforming your data in many ways, you will want to send the results to a destination. In particular, you may need to save the data in a plain file. Doing so is a simple task. To illustrate how to do it, we will reuse a transformation that was developed in the Filtering Rows section of  Chapter 4, Transforming Data, and will send the data to a text file:

  1. From the code developed in the last chapter, open the transformation that filtered places with more than three bedrooms or that accommodated more than four people. Save the transformation with a different name.
  2. From the Output folder, drag and drop a Text file output step.
  3. Create a hop from the Filter rows step (or the Java Filter step, depending on the step that you used) to the new step. When asked for the kind of hop, select Main output of step.
  4. Double-click on the Text file output step.
    1. Under Filename, type the full path to the destination file. You can include variable names (for example...
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María Carina Roldán

María Carina Roldán was born in Argentina and has a bachelor's degree in computer science. She started working with Pentaho back in 2006. She spent all these years developing BI solutions, mainly as an ETL specialist, and working for different companies around the world. Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires and works as an independent consultant. Carina is the author of Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE, published by Packt in December 2017. She has also authored other books on Pentaho, all of them published by Packt.
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