File Formatting

General File Formatting

• The file format is a plain text comma separated value (csv) file.
• Records will be separated by a carriage return plus line feed (CRLF hex 0D0A) character combination.
• Fields will be separated by a comma “,” character.

Escape Codes

The following escape codes must be used for special characters in field values:

Character	Description	Escape Sequence
,	Comma	\c
0x0d	Carriage Return	\r
0x0a	Line Feed	\n
\	Back Slash	\\
|	Pipe	\p