These options determine how general parsing of plain text files proceeds, as well as controlling delimited argument parsing.
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| noescapes | Treat backslash as a normal character |
| normalcommas | Treate commas as normal characters rather than delimiters |
| skipblanks | Blank lines (or those containing comments) are automatically skipped |
| stripbrackets | Normal parentheses are automatically stripped from the input file |
| stripcomments | Remove comments from file (text starting with ‘//’ or ‘#’) |
| usecurlies | Data within curly brackets will be parsed as a single argument |
| usequotes | Phrases enclosed in quotes will be parsed as a single argument |