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OCR Programming 8 - 21
Ignore to End of Field (D)
This operator causes all characters after a template to be ignored. Use this as the last character in a template
expression. Examples for the template 999D:
Template Incoming data Output
999D 123-PED 123
357298 357
193 193
Skip Until (P1)
This operator allows skipping over characters until a specific character type or a literal string is detected. It can
be used in two ways:
P1ct
Where:
• P1 is the Skip Until operator
• c is the type of character that triggers the start of output
• t is one or more template characters
P1"s"t
Where:
• P1 is the Skip Until operator
• "s" is one or more literal string characters (see Literal String (" and +) on page 8-19) that trigger the start
of output
• t is one or more template characters
D
P
1