Field Separator

You can configure the Field Hasher processor to add a field separator character to the end of all fields to be hashed. You might want to add a field separator character when you hash multiple fields to a single field or when you hash an entire record.

When you use a field separator, the Field Hasher processor adds the character to the end of each field to be hashed before they are hashed, so the field separator character is hashed with the field. Note that since the field separator is added to each field, then the last field in a set of fields or the last field in a record also includes the field separator character in the hash.

When you enable the use of a field separator, you can select one of the character options - Tab, Semicolon, Comma, and Space - or you can select Other and enter the code for any UTF-8 character.