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White space characters in TDS

White space characters are defined as:
  • ASCII characters (hexadecimal) 'X'09 to 'X'0D
  • EBCDIC characters 'X'05, 'X'0B, 'X'0C, 'X'0D, 'X'25, 'X'40
You can specify these characters in your message model using TDS mnemonics if they are important to your processing, for example, to use as group terminators or delimiting characters. See TDS Mnemonics for further information.
If the:
  • TDS messaging standard property is "X12" or "EDIFACT" and the
  • TDS data element separation in force for the structure is:
    • Tagged delimiter, or
    • Tagged fixed length, or
    • Tagged encoded length
then white space after the end of a group and preceding the tag of the next element is ignored.
The following bit stream is accepted:
Tag<data>!<Any whitespace character>Tag
where:
  • ! is the group terminator
  • <Any whitespace character> is one of the ASCII or EBCDIC characters listed previously
The following X12 ASCII message successfully parses:
ST*856*777777%<SPC><SPC><SPC><HEX 09>BSN*00*7654321*940920*10000%
The sequence
<SPC><SPC><SPC><HEX 09>
is ignored by the parser.
Related concepts
The message model
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Working with message model objects
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Message model object properties
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Message model object properties by object
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