Setting File Delimiters

A file delimiter is the character (or characters) used to separate fields in the data source. By default, a rules file expects fields to be separated by tabs. You can set the file delimiter as a comma, tab, space, fixed-width column, or custom value. Acceptable custom values are characters in the standard ASCII character set, numbered from 0 through 127. Usually, setting file delimiters is what you do first after opening a data source.

Note:

You do not need to set file delimiters for SQL data.

  To set file delimiters, see “Setting File Delimiters” in the Oracle Essbase Administration Services Online Help.