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13.14. Record Definition Example
This is what a record definition looks like:
fields="book[name,author] | magazine[*]
- The record definitions are pipe separated: "book" records will have a first field value of "book" while "magazine" records will have a first field value of "magazine"
- Asterisk ("*") as the field definition for a record basically tells the reader to generate the field names in the generated events (e.g. "field_0", "field_1" etc.)

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