====== SDF reader ======

Text files that only contain header lines (**Start at line** > 1) are ignored and not evaluated as faulty.

~~ GENERATED src="eBiss.Data.Resources.SdfReaderConfig" changed="" ~~
^Properties^^
^Name^Description^
|**Name**|The name of the reader|
|**Character encoding**|The encoding use to read the data ((Possible values are: [ascii][utf-7][utf-8][windows-1252][windows-1250][utf-16][iso-8859-1][1000-MAC Roman][ibm852][ibm855][ISO-2022-jp][cp850]))|
|**Auto detect encoding**|If set, then first the character encoding is tried to be read from the transmitted file.|
|**Reader config type**|
|**Separator**|Set the separator of the columns, e.g. semicolon.|
|**Record tag position**|The position of the record tag. 0 is the first column, 1 the second column and -1 means, the file does not contain a record tag|
|**Start at line**|The first line to be read, e.g. 2 means, start at line 2|
|**Extended parser**|Only if this is active, the follwing values, e.g. 'Open brackets' were evaluated|
|**Open brackets**|If your values are for example quoted you should insert an " for this value|
|**Close brackets**|If your values are for example quoted you should insert an " for this value|
|**Escape chars**|One or more escape characters. If an escape is set, then a column can also contain line breaks. See RFC 4180, there double quotes are used as escape characters. In eBiss the escape character must be set explicitly for historical reasons.|
|**Additional separators**|You can define additional separators, e.g.: ";:\t"|
|**Change logs**|The changes to the element are logged. The logging is activated in the [[en:hauptmenue:einstellungen:systemeinstellungen]], which is possible if a versioning license is available.|


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**see also:** [[en:transformation:mappings:objektdefinition:klassenaufbau:mapsupressrecordtag]]