9.2.3.3 Parsing Steps

The steps in delimited parsing are:

  1. The parser first reads and validates the metadata columns for each record.
  2. This provides the table name, which can then be used to look up column definitions for that table in the source definitions file.
  3. If a definition cannot be found for a table, the processing will stop.
  4. Otherwise the columns are parsed and output to the trail in the order and format defined by the source definitions.