[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> In the end I took the path of least resistance, and simply added a line
of
>> code to the program which outputs the data to go to our EDI translator.
>> This code translates all asterisks in the data into a blank. If you
don't
>> want to blank them out, then '!' or '#' would be good choices as
alternates
>> as well, as I have never seen anyone use these characters as separators.
I agree. While the standard says to examine the ISA in positions 4, 105 and
106 for the separators (and all the standard EDI software I've come across
does), there are sone home brewed software that insists on specific values
so, to be safe, I would try to have your mapper change the characters. That
way, you can even do partner specific changes if necessary.
Andy
PS I have seen the '!' used as a segment terminator; makes EDI read
strange...
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 13:20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Element Separators/End of line indicators
We ran into this problem too, once we had dozens of trading partners
already set up to use an asterisk as an element separator. The standard
answer is to change your separators to be something that isn't in your
data, but it can be time-consuming changing a whole bunch of partnerships
that are already up and working (and although it shouldn't matter what
separators you choose to use, for some reason some trading partners are
very particular about it, and they won't let you change without notifying
them and testing first).
In the end I took the path of least resistance, and simply added a line of
code to the program which outputs the data to go to our EDI translator.
This code translates all asterisks in the data into a blank. If you don't
want to blank them out, then '!' or '#' would be good choices as alternates
as well, as I have never seen anyone use these characters as separators.
Regards,
David Whiting
3M Canada Company
>From: "Henry, Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:41:56 -0500
>
>Is there a list of these somewhere? I want to change a description that
>currently contains asterisks in the beginning with something that won' t
be
>an EDI separator or end or line indicator.
>
>Thanks.
>
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