The table format is a file specifier for the LOAD statement that defines the file type. If nothing is specified, a .txt file is assumed.
| File type | Description |
|---|---|
| txt |
In a delimited text file the columns in the table are separated by a delimiter character. |
| fix |
In a fixed record file, each field is exactly a certain number of characters. Typically, many fixed record length files contains records separated by a linefeed, but there are more advanced options to specify record size in bytes or to span over more than one line with Record is. Information noteIf the data contains multi-byte characters, field breaks can become misaligned as the format is based on a fixed length in bytes.
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| dif | In a .dif file, (Data Interchange Format) a special format for defining the table is used. |
| biff | QlikView can also interpret data in standard Excel files by means of the biff format (Binary Interchange File Format). |
| ooxml | Excel 2007 and later versions use the ooxml .xslx format. |
| html | If the table is part of an html page or file, html should be used. |
| xml | xml (Extensible Markup Language) is a common markup language that is used to represent data structures in a textual format. |
| qvd | The format qvd is the proprietary QVD files format, exported from a QlikView document. |
| qvx | qvx is a file/stream format for high performance output to QlikView. |
