SDF reader

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

Properties
Name	Description
Name	The name of the reader
Character encoding	The encoding use to read the data ¹⁾
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 System settings, which is possible if a versioning license is available.

see also: MapSupressRecordTag

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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]

eBiss 3