Regarding the format of Flat file?

Hi frndz,
I have a requirement wherein i should create a flat file with around 20 characters and a time characteristic as Fiscal year variant. Which should be loaded to master data table.
So can anyone give me the idea about
1) How to create the flat file,Which include Fiscal year variant as a column in the file?
2) What should be the order of the columns in the flat file?
3) What are the other things that i should keep in mind while creating the flat file?
Thanks in Advance.
Thanks
Vinay

Hi ,
One more imp thing is that , if you are seperating the fields by , then in the infopackage , external tab , we need to maintain as seperator as " , " or if you are seperating the fields by " ;" , then then in the infopackage , external tab , we need to maintain as seperator as " ; " .And also we need to put 1 for the no of header rows to be ignored . And maintain Escape sign as ' " ' or "*" .
Hope this helps out
Thanks
PT

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