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sort process, PrintShop Mail Connect cannot know if the sort has successfully
completed or not. Thus the sort program must generate a return code, with a code of
zero ('0') indicating success, and all non-zero results indicating failure.
l
Command: Enter either:
l The full path to the executable that will sort the CSV file.
l A valid Windows command line instruction to sort the records.
This instruction should do the following:
1. Do some processing of the input CSVfile which PrintShop Mail Connect
will pass through in the position of the ${input} placeholder.
2. Generate an output file that contains the sorted data and must be named
according the file name PrintShop Mail Connect will pass through in the
position of the ${output} placeholder
For example: cmd /C sort /R ${input} ${output}
This would reverse the order of the ${input} file, and sent the output to the
${output} file.
l
Separator: Enter the field separator used in the CSV file, such as a comma (,), pipe
(|), semicolon (;), etc.
l
Quote Character: Enter the quoting character that wraps around any field that
contains the separator.
l
Escape Character: Enter the character use to escape the Quote character if it
appears in the field value.
l
Line Ending: Use the drop-down to select which line ending to use. The selections
are: Windows Carriage Return/Line Feed combination (CRLF), Linux Line Feed
(LF) or Apple Macintosh Carriage Return (CR).
l
Character Set: Use the drop-down to select which character set to use when
encoding the CSV file. This always defaults to UTF-8, as this caters for all possible
characters, is relatively compact (in terms of Unicode character sets) and is
compatible with standard ASCII.
l
Exported sort data group:
l
First row of sort data has field names checkbox: select to have field names
placed on the first line of the exported CSVfile.
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