File content conversion using the Meaasge Transform bean

Hi
I have a scenario file with pipe delimited file.
What are content conversion parameters required
venkat

Sedamkar,
In file content conversion you give these parameters;
Header.fieldSeparator:|
Header.endSeparator:'nl'
DetailRecord.fieldSeparator:|
DetailRecord.endSeparator:'nl'
TrailerRecord.fieldSeparator:|
TrailerRecord.endSeparator:'nl'
In recordset structure you give as:Header,1,DetailRecord,*,TrailerRecord,1
Regards,
---Satish

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/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
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/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30
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/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
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