Specifications

Pyramid Innovation Ltd 12-08-2014
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Issue 7
Data - Translators
Translators are used to control how incoming and outgoing data is filtered and formatted.
Incoming data is passed through a Translator to extract sections of data and move it into
data items.
Outgoing data is created by using a Translator to build a text string out of data items, with or
without delimiters.
Example incoming data from a scanned barcode
H14-12345-01-0A
Example outgoing data used to create a printed barcode
H14-12345-01-0A
Delimited data
Delimiters are used to separate data elements; in this case, dashes are used as delimiters.
The data elements can vary in length.
H14-12345-01-01
Fixed length data
Fixed length data has data elements of fixed length.
H14123450101
Prefix = H14
CaseNo = 12345
Suffix1 = 01
Suffix2 = 0A
Translator
Prefix = H14
CaseNo = 12345
Suffix1 = 01
Suffix2 = 0A
Translator