What is a delimited file?
A delimited text file is simply a type of file that contains your individual book entries. A “delimited” upload file to be sent to Used Book Central is one in which each book entry, or “record,” is separated into parts by a character, such as comma (,). The computer can then distinguish between the author, title, description and price of each of your books. The separate parts of each record are known as “fields.” Each record must also be separated by a line separator. The valid line separators are: carriage-return (CR), line-feed (LF), and the standard DOS/Windows character sequence CRLF (both). Here is an example of a single record as it appears to a Used Book Central shopper: Joyce, James. ULYSSES; Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927. VG in dj. Offered for sale by Your Bookstore at US$200.00 This record contains fields for the book’s author, title, descriptions (including publisher information and quality) and price. You do not need to include a bookseller field because it is entered into
