Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Matt - its SO TRUE - because, even though EDI is "Supposed" to be a > Standard - all the Trading partners use or do it slightly differently - > so we have to end up hard-coding all this Crap in our programs to make > the EDI stuff work. Its NUTS

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread kamcginnis
gment) that begins with ST tells you the name of the transaction set: ST|837 is a provider healthcare claim sent to a payer. - Original Message - From: "Kurt Wendt" To: Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:34 AM Subject: RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... Honestly - I'm not s

RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Richard Kaye
?INT(VAL(TRANSFORM(0x65))) :-) -- rk -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:59 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... Then it dawned on me -

RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Kurt Wendt
I hear ya. And, I know that Stephen has gotten on here and also ranted a bit about EDI. Yeah - not really fun stuff... -K- -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of M Jarvis Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:56 PM On Thu, Aug

RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Kurt Wendt
Of Ted Roche Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:49 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... Most of the internet is speaking Unicode UTF-8 or -16 these days. ASCII is really only defined for the first 128 characters (7-bit) and the 'extended ASCII character set&#x

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread M Jarvis
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Matt - its SO TRUE - because, even though EDI is "Supposed" to be a > Standard - all the Trading partners use or do it slightly differently - > so we have to end up hard-coding all this Crap in our programs to make > the EDI stuff work. Its NUT

RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Kurt Wendt
xtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of M Jarvis Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:53 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > So, your vendor, in choosing an upper 8-bit character

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread M Jarvis
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > So, your vendor, in choosing an upper 8-bit character, is implementing > a "non-standard EDI format" which I can't even type without lol. > The nice thing about having very explicit STANDARDS is that there are so many to choose from --

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Ted Roche
gt; -Original Message- > From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On > Behalf Of kamcgin...@gmail.com > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:44 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... > > If this is for a ANSI 837 t

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread M Jarvis
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Actually - I find it VERY ODD that they are using this particular character - > because, in other EDI files, its usually characters like you described > below... > if it's a mainframe you are talking to it doesn't really surprise me... ours

RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Kurt Wendt
tech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of kamcgin...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:44 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... If this is for a ANSI 837 transaction set, for example: sending claims to Medicare: Element separator: 124 '|' Sub-element sep

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread kamcginnis
If this is for a ANSI 837 transaction set, for example: sending claims to Medicare: Element separator: 124 '|' Sub-element separator: 094 '^' Segment terminator 126 '~' Those are all ASCII, visible, printable codes so you should not have to use the hex value. - Original Message - F

RE: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Kurt Wendt
foxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > As such, I figured I would try to implement via the Hexcode. But, how exactly do I use HexCodes in VFP. I know the ASC() and CHR() commands, but, AFAIK - that's for purely Ascii c

Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread Fred Taylor
Hex in VFP: constant number, just prefix with 0x : 0x5F (same as just 95) format number to string: TRANSFORM(95,"@0") -> 0x005F = 8digits after the 0x string to number: VAL("0x5F") or EVALUATE("0x5F") -> 95 Fred On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Hey folks, >