The ability to split fields is to be able to annotate in the Mapping Table an instruction for the Playlist Importer on how to extract partial information and mapped it a named variable.

The notation for splitting a field is like this: &(FIELD_NAME,”DELIMITER”,FROM,COUNT). If the delimiter is empty, it will split into characters.

Example

Assuming the schedule file contains the value '31.12.2006' and that value is mapped to variable begin_date_temp, we can then assign this to another variable using the split annotation to extract partial value.