Hi, I am new to Informatica, What is a flat file and how to
use flat file in infomratica please help me.

Answer Posted / raj

Flat file is a text file.give some data in note pad using
delimiter or fixed width. later import it into designer
from source analyzer sources-->import from file.

next declare the properties in session
file directory: give the path(c:\)
file name: emp.txt
under mapping tab for source.

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