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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions Product Manuals/Stream Descriptors/index.md
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Expand Up @@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ Parameter | Default | Description
Separator | "\r\n" | The record separator
SkipHeader | true | The CSV header present?
SkipBlankLines | true | Ignore blank lines
NullValues | ["\N"] | A list of values to be interpreted as "null"
ParseFormulas | true | Interpret Excel-style formulas of the form =XXXX as strings "XXXX"
StripWhitespace | "all" | Remove leading/trailing whitespace ("all"/"leading"/"trailing"/"none")

For example:
``` json
Expand All @@ -486,6 +489,11 @@ Note that the following settings are not
* "QuoteCharacter": (anything other than double quote)
* "Delimiter": (anything other than comma)

The following settings are designed for CSV files exported from Excel:
* "NullValues": ["\N"]
* "ParseFormulas": true
* "StripWhitespace": "all"

### <a name="default-envelope">Default envelope

If the Envelope property is missing, the framing scheme is selected using the
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