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Option

Description

Name

Name of the field

Type

Type of the field can be either String, Date or Number

Format

See Number Formats for a complete description of format symbols.

Position

This is needed when processing the 'Fixed' filetype. It is zero based, so the first character is starting with position 0.

Length

For Number: Total number of significant figures in a number; For String: total length of string; For Date: length of printed output of the string (e.g. 4 only gives back the year).

Precision

For Number: Number of floating point digits; For String, Date, Boolean: unused;

Currency

Used to interpret numbers like $10,000.00 or E5.000,00

Decimal

A decimal point can be a "." (10;000.00) or "," (5.000,00)

Grouping

A grouping can be a dot "," (10;000.00) or "." (5.000,00)

Null if

Treat this value as NULL

Default

Default value in case the field in the text file was not specified (empty)

Trim

type trim this field (left, right, both) before processing

Repeat

If the corresponding value in this row is empty, repeat the one from the last row when it was not empty.

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