[Home](./index.md) > [@datashaper/schema](./schema.md) > [ParserOptions](./schema.parseroptions.md) ## ParserOptions interface Parsing options for delimited files. This is a mix of the options from pandas and spark. Signature: ```typescript export interface ParserOptions ``` ## Properties | Property | Modifiers | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [comment?](./schema.parseroptions.comment.md) | | string | (Optional) Character that denotes a comment. Lines that begin with this character are ignored. Default: none. | | [delimiter?](./schema.parseroptions.delimiter.md) | | string | (Optional) Column delimiter. Default: , | | [escapeChar?](./schema.parseroptions.escapechar.md) | | string | (Optional) String to use for escaping quotes. Default: none | | [header?](./schema.parseroptions.header.md) | | boolean | (Optional) Indicates that the first row of the file contains column header names. If false, names should be supplied, otherwise incrementing numbers will be assigned as header names. Default: true | | [lineTerminator?](./schema.parseroptions.lineterminator.md) | | string | (Optional) Character that indicates the end of a line (row). Default: \\r, \\r\\n, or \\n | | [names?](./schema.parseroptions.names.md) | | string\[\] | (Optional) List of column names to use. If this is not supplied, column names will be inferred from the first row of the data. | | [quoteChar?](./schema.parseroptions.quotechar.md) | | string | (Optional) Character to use for quoting strings. Default: " | | [readRows?](./schema.parseroptions.readrows.md) | | number | (Optional) Number of rows to read from the data, starting at skip\_rows (honors skipBlankLines). Default: Infinity | | [skipBlankLines?](./schema.parseroptions.skipblanklines.md) | | boolean | (Optional) Skip blank lines when reading file. Default: true. | | [skipRows?](./schema.parseroptions.skiprows.md) | | number | (Optional) Number of rows to skip from the start of the data (honors skipBlankLines). Default: 0 |