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Re: Gentran:Server for Unix Question

From: Chris Johnson <chrisj@...>
Date: Mon Jan 24, 2005  5:44 pm
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server for Unix Question
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>I am in the process of implementing the INVOIC transaction with a
>customer who requires the Syntax level A which uses ' as the segment
>terminator. Unfortunately, I have numerous ' in my product descriptions
>and am looking for the right way to strip these characters from the
>description in the IDOC prior to translation. I've looked through the
>Sterling Commerce KB and the documentation and so far have not found
>any solution.

In EDIFACT messages the translator should insert an escape character
(normally '?') before any instances of syntax characters in data, so
their removal is not necessary in the same way as it is for X12.

Regards
Chris
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