Character Separated Files can be much more than the CSV-file you can import into an Excel spreadsheet. Some applications export structured Character Separated Files with a structure like this

                     File Header
                                 Document Header
                                        Line
                                        Line
                                        Line
                                 Document Footer
                      File Footer
 

Each field in the file is surrounded by some character to delimit it from the other fields on the line.

These files contain information in the File Header as well as in the Document Header and the Lines, and this has made the interpretation and import of this type of file very cumbersome, often requiring a programmer to make a program to convert these files.

With EDIView for TaskCentre you can use the Character Separated File tools to read and create files like this, and either import them into an ERP system or use some of the other EDIView for TaskCentre tools to convert them to a format you can use for importing into something else.

With EDIView for TaskCentre it is easy to define the format of the files using the interactive Interchange Editor where you specify the termination characters and the fields in the various sections of the file.

This type of files is seen when working with Bank Integration (eg. payment files) and import/export files from ERP systems, where objects such as invoices can be exported and imported through Structured Character Separated Files.