@ambadi007 wrote:
My client is saying the input files will be coming in the below format
The files we are getting will be ~ delimmited and with no text qualifires and the freq is none
could you please explain me what is text qualifires and the freq is none ?
Here is an example of comma delimited with "quote qualified text"
Column1, Column2, Column3
12345,"qualified, as this has a comma in the value",oneword
Generally the quote qualifiers come in when the delimiter may appear as a value inside a variables value.
If a delimiter that does not appear in the values is use then the qualifier wouldn't be needed
so if the delimiter is changed to a pipe character | which does not appear in text written by people very often you could have
Column1, Column2, Column3
12345|qualified, as this has a comma in the value|oneword
So the second column with the same text no longer needs the " " to protect the comma in the value.
Ideally the file supplier would tell you want each of the columns in the data represent, expected lengths of variables and whether the values are actually numeric (to calculate with) or not. The example column1 could be an identifier such as an account number which should not be numeric (especially if 16 or more digits long) as it is not numeric.
Dates and such should also have the format specified.
Also stumped on the "freq is none".
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