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mrtrich99

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 11:19 AM

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I have a folder, E:\test\, with a zip file. this zip file is in a date format, for example, 01-15-09.zip. Now in two weeks another file will be uploaded and now the zip file will now be 01-31-09.zip. After I've processed the zip file I will move it to another folder that has not been created yet so I want to get the date portion of the filename so I can put it in a variable in order to create a folder with a 01-15-09 name. Is this possible by using a variable to capture the filename and then using that variable as the input to create subfolder which will be "E:\test\01-15-09\"?

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GSquared

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 11:30 AM

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Yes, this can be done with SSIS.

Declare a variable, set up a For...Each...Next loop that goes through the files in the folder, and assign the file name to the variable. Use the variable as part of a file-system-object command to create a folder. Very straightforward.

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mrtrich99

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 2:56 PM

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GSquared (1/23/2009)

I am getting a "Directory already exist" error message. Here's what I'm doing:

In the Foreach Loop in the Collection I have in the Folder, the path of where my file is "E:\test" and in the Files i have "*.zip" (without the double quotes). Variable Mappings set the variable to the empty variable, for example, User::ZipFileName variable. When the Foreach Loop gets executed, the *.zip I specified in the collection should get stored in the User::ZipFileName, correct?

Now inside the Foreach Loop container, I created a File System Task with the following criteria: UseDirectoryIfExists = True, Operation = Create directory, IsSourcePathVariable = True, SourceVariable = User::FileSourcePath (which is the "E:\test"). Nothing is in the expressions. Is this correct?

Am I missing something else?

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mrtrich99

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:44 PM

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I guess my main problem is that I can't seem to capture the filename to assign to the variable...I've what I mentioned above and even using a connection string in the Source Connection and nothing seems to work. Can anyone suggest how they would set up a foreach loop to get the file name to put in a variable?

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