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Feature Representation

In addition to the generic FME feature attributes that FME Workbench adds to all features (see About Feature Attributes), this format adds the format-specific attributes described in this section.

The CSV feature attributes consists of the columns that were in the CSV table. All CSV features contain a csv_type attribute, which is always set to csv_none as there is no geometry to CSV features. This represents that the feature was generated from a CSV file.

Attribute Name

Contents

csv_type

The CSV geometric type of this entity.

Range: csv_none

Default: csv_none

csv_line_number

(Reader only)

Line number within the file, starting at 1.

csv_number_of_fields

(Reader only)

The number of non-empty field values obtained for the source row in the CSV file.

csv_total_number_of_columns

(Reader only)

The total number of columns, regardless of content, obtained from the source row in the CSV file.