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Parser Directive
Type
Parser Directive Mandatory
Description
FILTER (Optional) Specifies a filter
command used to process the
file before the general parser
parses the file.
LINEENDCOMMENTSTRING (Optional) Sets the regular
expression used to identify
comments at the end of data
lines. You can specify multiple
regular expressions separated
by the / character. You encode
white space as
“[[:blank:]]”.
OFS Sets the output field separator.
This directive is used by the
filter driver and the key
generator. Use for testing
purposes.
ORDINAL Numeric value used by some
parsers as the ordinal value
associated with each data
element.
PARSER Yes Identifies the parser needed to
analyze the file.
RS Sets the Record Separator,
which is commonly used when
parsing XML files, or when
parsing other files where
records are not separated by
line feeds.
TYPEID Yes Identifies the
InfoType/Basis/TypeIDof the
file being parsed, and must be a
unique value with no white
space.
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