Line Continuation Character

Each row is on a single line, which is terminated by a newline. This section describes how to split information over multiple lines with the line continuation character.

The ReadFromCSVFile adapter provided by Sybase CEP treats both a bare LineFeed (ASCII 10) and the sequence CarriageReturn+LineFeed (ASCII 13 followed by ASCII 10) as newlines. In some cases, you want to split lengthy data onto multiple lines. To indicate that the next line is part of the current line, use a line continuation character.

Note that the character is interpreted as a line continuation character ONLY when it is the last non-whitespace character prior to a newline. For example, consider the following data:

Row1, "The caret character (^) is treated as a line continuation ^

character only when it is at the end of a line."

Row2, "This row is the second row."

The first caret on the first line is treated as part of the data. Only the last caret is treated as a line continuation character.