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Flat File source not recognizing {CR}{LF}

  • June 9, 2020 at 8:23 pm

    #3761803

    Using VS 2017

    I have a bunch of "^" delimited flat files i am importing into SQL server 2019 tables.  The files are formatted identically as far as i can see.  One of the files fails.  The flat file source returns this message "The specified header or data row delimiter "{CR}{LF}" is not found after scanning ...".   The {CR}{LF} is there.  I've attached a screen shot from NotePad++ that clearly shows the {CR}{LF}.  All of the other files look identical in NotePad++ and process successfully.

    I have also attached a screen shot of the flat file source configuration.

    I have Googled this can find no solution.  Anybody else had deal with this?

    Thank you!

    Jonathan

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  • June 9, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    #3761811

    I think I've seen this when one of the data rows has a different number of columns that the header row, or when the connection manager was created using a a file with a different number of columns than the problem file.

    Maybe try opening the problem file in Excel so you can see the columns more easily and make sure all rows have the same number of columns, then compare with a known good file to see if the two files have the same number of columns.

  • June 9, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    #3761813

    Can you Preview the file, or does the error happen before that?

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  • June 10, 2020 at 8:44 am

    #3761892

    As Palandri mentions, I suspect that (at least) one of the rows doesn't have enough columns or too many. As a result the import fails as the CRLF isn't found where it's expected.

    Thom~

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  • June 10, 2020 at 9:15 am

    #3761895

    and sometimes being (or not) unicode also gives the same error - many times this happens because someone edited or created a file manually for testing and didn't set it as per the package definition

  • June 10, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    #3761978

    Thanks everyone for your help!  I am going to investigate your suggestions today and reply with what i find.

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