Hi

Don't know if anyone can help or has had experience with this in WX?

I am developing a hand held barcode scanning project on WDMobile 21.
Focus is in an EDIT control and an EAN128 barcode is scanned, this
correctly populated the EDIT control. Within the data returned, i need
to parse out/identify the separator FNC1 used to identify the end of
variable data within certain AI's

e.g a barcode might be 1516123110ABC11160101 (human readable would be
(15)161231(10)ABC(11)160101

The AI's (15) use by date and (11) manufacture date are fixed length
data but (10) batch code is variable length therefore FNC1 is used to
mark the end of the data allowing you to parse the next AI

Does anyone know the best way in Wlanguage/functions to do this from the
data captured in the EDIT control (or keyboard input buffer) from the
scanner ?

Any help would be much appreciated

Regards
Dave

Hi Fabrice

Many thanks for your reply.
Unfortunately, you cannot detect based on the data, a batch code could
be alpha, numeric or mixed.

Another scenario is if the AI (article identifier in EAN-128 barcode)
for quantity is used, again a variable length data field

In 'progress 4gl' we do a 'readkey' on the keyboard input (data the scan
engine sends) and we can check the ascii value of each character and
therefore detect the FNC1 separator.
Dave