The real world dictates that your most important customers will often do as they please and you will have to deal with it. However, my previous response still stands, something that egregious is likely unintentional and causing issues for many, rather than just you, so should be brought to the attention of the TP.
Leah ________________________________ From: J <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 10:36 AM Subject: [EDI-L] Re: EDI files are 80 characters wide EDI Best practices dictate that you should never accept a transaction that uses CR, LF or CR/LF as a segment, element or sub-element delimiter. Considering this is a function of translator/trading partner set-up you can request that the trading partner changes the delimiters to something less likely to appear in the file for other purposes. Given a choice I like the printable characters ^ and | because they make the raw data easier to read. --- In [email protected], "weijinghsu" <whsu@...> wrote: > > > Thank you all who responded. > > As Mike mentioned, it is possible that those types of file may also use CR/LF > as the segment delimiter. Then, how do you determine when to remove the > CR/LF and when they are used as the segment separator? > > Thanks. > > WJ > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
