Common Control Characters

Common Control Characters

Within a record map, you can use literal control characters as well as printable characters in several places. For example, you can specify a tab character, which is a common control character as well as a comma, which is a printable character, as a separator. You can also specify control characters as a padding character or as one of the record terminator characters. To specify a control character in one of these contexts, you must specify the hexadecimal escape sequence for the character. If you select the space or tab character as the padding character, or CRLF (carriage return followed by a line feed), CR, or LF as the record terminator character in the Record Mapper, the Management Portal automatically generates the hexadecimal representation. If you are specifying another control character as the padding character or in the record terminator or any control character as a separator, you must enter the hexadecimal representation in the corresponding form field. The following table lists the hexadecimal escape sequence for commonly used control characters:

For additional characters, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codesOpens in a new tab or other resources.