Text Jitterbit variables in Design Studio

Introduction

This page covers Jitterbit variables that are available for text files. Each of these are settings variables that you write (Settings).

Settings

jitterbit.text.fixed_width_use_byte_length

Data type

Boolean

Default value

false

Description

Controls how the agent measures field width in fixed-width text files. Because a single multibyte character is encoded as more than one byte in UTF-8, measuring width by bytes and measuring it by characters can produce different results.

• false: (Default.) Measure width by character count, so each character occupies one position regardless of how many bytes it uses. Fields stay correctly aligned when the data contains multibyte characters.
• true: Measure width by byte count. This is the legacy behavior, in which a multibyte character occupies more than one position and can shift or truncate later fields.

This variable is supported with agents version 12.7 and later.

jitterbit.text.qualifier_required

Data type

Boolean

Default value

false

Description

Set to true if the string qualifier is required for text targets. If set to false the string qualifier will be written only when needed.