This topic describes how to set-up import filters and import packages to import information from CSV files (Comma Separated Value), or text files, into Match-IT. An import filter is a simple script that you write to describe how to translate a particular CSV file, or text file, format into an equivalent import package that is acceptable to Match-IT. An import package is a simple description of a related set of import records that you wish to import into Match-IT. The CSV format is a very simple and popular format for transferring information from one system to another. Most modern software packages can produce CSV files. The Match-IT importing system can also extract information from reports created from other systems that have been sent to a file. This note uses the Sage Line 50 stock file and its stock explosion report as examples.

Note: These facilities are only useful when the import transformations are relatively simple. For more complex situations it's far better to write a Lua script.