That won't work Dale, as you've undoubtedly found out. I've seen several instances where a TP has an asterisk as the separator and is also throwing it into a NTE segment as part of a note, and there isn't a translator made that can handle that, because it goes completely against any standard (ANSI X-12, EDIFACT or any other). The only solution is to call your TP and inform them of their transgression. When I've had to do this in the past it has never been a problem once they understood the significance/necessity of a unique character. Try using the simile (or metaphor...I never was much good at grammar) of a sentence, and then sprinkle spaces liberally throughout the sentence and you should be able to illustrate the error of their ways.
If they really don't want to change the information they're entering, try to get them to use a different separator. If they can't change their separator or their data talk to their boss, because they've hired fools to run their EDIship.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Marthaller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Element Separators
Does anyone have a work around for a situation where a trading partner has
imbedded data containing the same character as the element separator.
I have a trading partner set up to use an asterisk as an element separator
but also has one element that contains an asterisk?
Dale Marthaller
David Oppenheimer Group
http://www.oppyproduce.com
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(604) 435-1386
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