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RE: Quantity Element in EDIFACT Version D99B - Bottom lin e
Any field can be alphanumeric unless that field is
required for a computation in the translation.
Cheers,
Stanley Pool
214-632-5815
--- Bill Chessman < wrote:
> Um, I'm not sure I get your point. Numeric types
> (that allow exponents and
> decimal points) are distinctly different from raw
> alphanumerics in that
> there are specific rules as to which non-digit
> characters are allowed and
> where they can be placed. In the extreme case of a
> numeric with exponent,
> it is possible to have at most one decimal point,
> one letter (e or E, your
> choice) and two minus signs (one in the main part or
> "mantissa" and one in
> the exponent, both leading as far as I know--I'm
> only talking about EDI
> real/numeric types here, not COBOL or, gasp, RPG, or
> for that matter, PL/I).
> In other words, the non-digit characters have very
> specific function and
> meaning.
>
> Best regards,
> Bill Chessman
> Peregrine Systems, Inc. (though opinions expressed
> or implied are my own)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Katz [mailto:
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: 'New EDI-L'
> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT
> Version D99B - Bottom
> line
>
>
> So I wonder just, what the point is, in having
> numeric type elements and
> components defined in the standards, since any
> numeric value can have
> signs, decimal, exponential factors and whatever
> else to make it become
> an alphanumeric field?
>
>
> Ron Katz
> RK Consulting Inc.
> 401-334-2463
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Goodrum [mailto:
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: 'New EDI-L'
> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT
> Version D99B
>
> I believe your analysis is dead on the money. I
> think I am just tired
> today.
> Hence, my continual rambling. I am currently trying
> to get my head
> around
> converting EDI docs into an OODB. We have a team
> here that is strongly
> pushing this scenario. After a couple of days of
> rastlin' the idea. I
> still
> cannot determine if it is a good idea or a bad one.
> P.S. Not a pure OO data structure. It's more of a
> hybrid XML/O-O thing
> that
> someone here came up with to perform EAI. They've
> though of the theory.
> I
> have to turn it into code.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Mattias
> [mailto:
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:30 AM
> To: 'New EDI-L'
> Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT
> Version D99B
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fred Goodrum <
> To: 'New EDI-L' <
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:46 AM
> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT
> Version D99B
>
>
> > Geez....This is not good. Every single time
> someone someone asks 'why
> didn't
> > someone think of this or that' every ol' timer
> speaks up and starts up
> with
> > a 'been there-done that' ?
>
> Au contraire, mon ami; c'est Good Thing!
>
> This shows the younger generation is thinking about
> other ways to get
> things
> done. Better this than a bunch of automatons mired
> in a rut, merely
> looking
> for
> the correct
> pointy-clicky-dragee-droppee-touchy-feely icon upon
> which to
> click.
>
> (It also makes us "ol' timers" feel needed, wanted
> and appreciated).
>
> Michael Mattias
> Tal Systems, Inc.
> Racine WI
>
>
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