it did, but it drove the translators nuts. Mike Rawlins wrote:
>If you are referring to ANSI X12, then yes and no. In versions prior to >003030 (I think this is about right, but don't quote me on it) X12.6 >allowed the two to be the same character. This wasn't much of a problem >because there were very few composite data structures early on. As of >003030 X12.6 was modified to state that they must not be the same >character. Further, all of the delimiters must use a unique character. > >Mike > >Rudolph, Mike wrote: > > >>Can the Element Separator AND the Sub-Element Separator both contain the >>same value in a transaction? For example, an asterisk (*). >> >>I say no. >> >> >> -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Brian Lehrhoff, EA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Messaging Consultant 201-913-4506 Buy 2006 Quickbooks for 15% off at http://www.brianlehrhoff.com Circular 230 Notice is located at http://www.brianlehrhoff.com/230notice.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
