File Layout Format

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What do you mean by File Layout Format? What values are supported?

candidate on Oct 31, 2011 Reply

A row in a file can have many fields. It is the File Layout Format that specifies how data can be distinguished. The supported values for this field are CSV, FIXED, XML.

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lilsam on Jul 13, 2016 Reply

A File layout format represents few things:
1) How the incoming file data is represented and how should it be processed
2) How the outgoing file data should be represented so that the end system processes it correctly.

In order to support the above, a File Layout can be defined as:
– FIXED : Record field length specific data representation
– CSV : Data represented with a delimiter which can be comma(,) , tilde (~) or any other as per requirement
– XML : Data represented with the help of XML tags

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