topic Re: Get the value of the file encoding in App Development

Get the value of the file encoding

Asmaa93 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:23:03 GMT

Hello everyone,

For automation purposes, I want to get the value of a file's encoding and store it in a variable or a new column. Is there any function that can do this ? If not, is there a way to be able to do it ?

Thank you in advance,

Re: Get the value of the file encoding

QFabian — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:53:50 GMT

Hi @Asmaa93 , i found this in the community, for qlikview

https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView-App-Dev/Byte-order-mark/td-p/259763

Re: Get the value of the file encoding

Asmaa93 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:52:08 GMT

Hello @QFabian, thank you very much for your response.

I am not quite sure I understand the relationship between getting the encoding value (utf-8, unicode....) from a file being loaded and the link you have provided. Could you please elaborate ?

My goal is as simple as just retrieving the value in order to add conditions on the encoding afterwards.

Thank you in advance,