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Limit visible events to:EnterthemaximumnumberofeventstoshowintheMessagesPane.
Defaultis50.
Settingspane
SettingsforthedatasourceandalistofDataSamplesandJavaScriptfilesusedinthecurrentdata
mappingconfiguration,canbefoundontheSettingstabattheleft.Theavailableoptionsdependon
thetypeofdatasamplethatisloaded.
TheInputDatasettings(especiallyDelimiters)andBoundariesareessentialtoobtainthedataand
eventually,theoutputthatyouneed.Formoreexplanation,see"Datasourcesettings"onpage223.
Input Data
TheInput Datasettingsspecifyhowtheinputdatamustbeinterpreted.Thesesettingsaredifferentfor
eachdatatype.ForaCSVfile,forexample,itisimportanttospecifythedelimiterthatseparatesdata
fields.PDFfilesarealreadydelimitednaturallybypages,sotheinputdatasettingsforPDFfilesare
interpretationsettingsfortextinthefile.
CSV file Input Data settings
InaCSVfile,dataisreadlinebyline,whereeachlinecancontainmultiplefields.Theinputdataset-
tingsspecifytotheDataMappermodulehowthefieldsareseparated.
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Field separator:Defineswhatcharacterseparateseachfieldinthefile.EventhoughCSV
standsforcomma-separatedvalues,CSVcanactuallyrefertofileswherefieldsareseparated
usinganycharacter,includingcommas,tabs,semicolons,andpipes.
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Text delimiter:Defineswhatcharactersurroundstextinthefile,preventingtheField separator
frombeinginterpretedwithinthosetextdelimiters.Thisensuresthat,forexample,thefield
“Smith;John”isnotinterpretedastwofields,evenifthefielddelimiteristhesemicolon.
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Comment delimiter:Defineswhatcharacterstartsacommentline.
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Encoding:DefineswhatencodingisusedtoreadtheDataSource(US-ASCII,ISO-8859-1,
UTF-8,UTF-16,UTF-16BEorUTF-16LE).
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Lines to skip:DefinesanumberoflinesintheCSVthatwillbeskippedandnotusedasrecords.
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Set tabs as a field separator:OverwritestheField separatoroptionandsetstheTabchar-
acterinsteadfortab-delimitedfiles.
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First row contains field names:UsesthefirstlineoftheCSVasheaders,whichautomatically
namesallextractedfields.
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