You must be using X12... so you're only real choices are to either have your trading partner change their delimiter, or remove the offending characters from the data. If you were using EDIFACT messages, then you could have them precede the character with a question mark (or other character specified in the UNA segment as the release character). Any character immediately following the release character will be used as data and not a delimiter. -- Linda Denison Senior Programmer Analyst FedEx Corporate Services EC Integration Development +1 (469) 524-6422 Dale Marthaller wrote: > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (604) 435-1386 > > ======================================================================= > To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
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