Can you use autoloader with a fixed width file?

david_torres
New Contributor II

I have a collection fixed width files that I would like to ingest monthly with autoloader but I can't seem to find an example.

I can read the files into Dataframes using a python function to map the index and length of each field with no issues but I am not sure if these DF's can then be used directly within a readstream() call.

Would it be better to convert to a parquet file before reading these in?