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# Delimited File

The following are the properties for Delimited File metadata. Note that you can connect to Delimited or Csv Files directly through the activity or action in your project (if the file fields can be defined from a unique source). 

You only need to define the metadata if you want to reuse the definition in future projects or if the fields are not derived from an existing data source (for example to specify a csv target mixing fields from different sources).

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***FileDefinitionName***

Datasource name, enter a unique name for the file definition.

***File Path***

The default file path to automatically load file fields from an existing csv file

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***File Fields***

Define a collection of fields in the file (when creating the metadata, this collection is empty and will be generated from the file and separator specified in the File Path and Field Separator properties.

***Field Separator***

Define the field separator character


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