Specifies the format to use when parsing all CSV files.

Data Type

string

Default Value

"CsvDelimited"

Remarks

When this connection property is set, the add-in parses all CSV files in the URI according to the specified file format:

• CsvDelimited: The add-in separates each field by commas.
• TabDelimited: The add-in separates each field by tabs.
• FixedLength: The add-in counts a specified number of characters to separate each field. Requires you to also set the width of each column in Schema.ini.

The following connection string parses all CSV files in the folder specified in the URI as tab-delimited values with headers:

URI=C:\mytsv;FMT=TabDelimited

If the property is set to anything other than the values specified above, the literal character of the specified input is read as the delimiter. For example:

URI=C:\mypipdelimitedfile;FMT=||