FileAdapter to read "|" (pipe) seperated file

Hi all,
when using "file content conversion" in the sender file adapter and having a "," or ";" as a seperator everything is fine.
But I now have a "|" (pipe symbol) as the seperator character. The adapter does not seem to recognize this "|" as a single character and keeps the original line unchanged, that I don't get my XML I wanted
I tried various other settings like the hex-representation, '|', "|" or | without qoutes, but not success so far.
So if someone has come across this already and solved it ... please post.
Thx
Uwe

Hi all,
these settings are working :
line.fieldSeparator |
line.fieldNames <field1>,<field2>,<field3>
line.processFieldNames fromConfiguration
line.endSeparator 'nl'
I have seperated the fieldNames as well with |
thanks a lot to all
Uwe

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