DataPort Custom Formatter

By default DataPort imports a tab delimited file. What is less well known is that you can write your own formatter to import an arbitrary file format. In this sample I import a very simple XML file. Even though the XML file itself is simple it is a little more complex to import than a tab delimited file due to the fact that it does not follow the essentially columnar layout of a tab delinted file.

We also have the code for our standard tab delimited formatter in the GitHub repo.

BTW, you may hear in the background the happy sounds of my 2 year old son playing in the backyard, enjoy!

Written on October 26, 2018