Control Character Replacer¶

Introduction¶

The Control Character Replacer plugin replaces all control characters in input files with a given string.

This plugin can be associated only with Private Agent Groups and is not available on the Jitterbit Cloud Agent Groups.

Important

Plugins provided by Jitterbit are deprecated. See Deprecation and Support in Plugins.

Download and Add the Plugin¶

The Control Character Replacer plugin is a standard Jitterbit plugin that is already available in the Management Console Plugins page and does not need to be downloaded or added to the organization.

If directed by Jitterbit Support, this plugin can be downloaded at the link provided below and added to the organization (see Add New Plugins in Customizations > Plug-ins).

Control Character Replacer (.ZIP)

Associate the Plugin with an Agent Group¶

The Control Character Replacer plugin must be associated with a Private Agent Group to make the plugin available on all agents in the group (see Associate Agent Groups in Customizations > Plug-ins).

The plugin is listed in the Management Console Plugins page with a display name of Control Character Replacer.

Set Variables and Use the Plugin in a Project¶

Refer to these topics for information about using plugins in a project:

Plugins (Cloud Studio)
Plugins (Design Studio)

The Control Character Replacer plugin uses these variables:

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Jitterbit.CntrlCharReplacer.Replace`	String	Optional	The string to use as replacement for each control character. The default replace string is a single space character.
`Jitterbit.CntrlCharReplacer.Encoding`	String	Optional	The name of the encoding to use when processing the input files. If an encoding is not provided, the default encoding for the agent is used.
`Jitterbit.CntrlCharReplacer.ReplaceExtendedAscii`	Boolean	Optional	Controls if extended ASCII characters (>127) should be replaced as well. Extended ASCII characters are replaced by default, so set this variable to `false` in order to keep them.
`Jitterbit.CntrlCharReplacer.Input`	String	Optional	Provides the input string if this plugin is run from a script or mapping.
`Jitterbit.CntrlCharReplacer.Output`	String	Optional	Contains the output string after this plugin has been run from a script or mapping.