File sender adapter settings & required datatype...

Hi guys,
could you please tell me (or send a link), how to define datatype structure for comma separated text file, which I need to process by File Sender Adapter?
For example, now I try to preocess file with following structure:
item11;item21
item21;item22
itemxx;itemxy
Also, where can I define the separator? When I tried to configure it in the directory, there was no place to select it..
Thanx, Peter
Message was edited by: Peter Jarsunek

You have to select message protocol = File Content Conversion and follow the blog.
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/01/06/how-to-process-csv-data-with-xi-file-adapter
regards
Shravan

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