Flat representation properties
- Newline type: Select whether you want to define a newline based on your platform or specify a custom one.
- Newline character: Enter the character sequence that represents a newline.
- Delimiter: Enter the character used to separate values.
- Number of initial rows to skip: Enter the number of rows from the beginning of the file to skip.
- Output Delimited Header?: Select this check box to add a delimited header to the output file generated.
- Physical encoding: Select the type of physical encoding. When using binary encoding, numeric values are formatted using their binary formats, for example a data type Integer (32) is formatted as 4 bytes.
- Number encoding: Select the type of number encoding for binary numeric values.
- Padding character: Enter the character to be used when padding.
- Is positional?: Select this check box to set the size of all elements as their maximum size and set them all as mandatory.
- Is truncatable: Select this check box if it is acceptable for positional trailing leaf elements to be omitted.
- Output as delimited?: Select this check box to have children of row element to be output as delimited.
- Binary encode decimals: Select this checkbox if you want decimals to be output without a decimal sign and left padded with zeros.
- Pad repeating elements to minimum occurs?: Select this check box to automatically add empty elements to any element that occurs where the actual number of iterations is lower than the minimum required number.
- Ignore ambiguous inits/terms: Select this check box to handle optional elements sequentially in the order in which they appear.
- Row element: Select the element that identifies where a new row begins.
- Character encoding: Specify the character encoding for the data to be processed. For more information, see Character encoding.
- Trim whitespace on input?: Select this check box to automatically remove any leading or trailing whitespace from the input data for all elements. The non-leading or trailing whitespace is not affected.
- Pad to minimum length on output?: Select this check box to pad the output to the minimum size with either spaces (character) or zeros (binary).
- Enforce zero scale on output decimals?: Select this check box if you want to remove all fractional digits for Decimal elements with the Decimal Places property set to 0.
- Decimal sign is implied on output: Select this check box if you do not want the decimal sign to appear in the output.