Braced fields—Used where the data is enclosed in one or more bracing characters BR, <open brace characters>, <close brace characters>, <tag flag>, <tag position>.Braced fields—Used where the data is enclosed in one or more bracing characters BR, <open brace characters>, <close brace characters>, <tag flag>, <tag position>.Delimited fields—Used where fields are delimited by a single character DL, <delimiting character>, <tag flag>, <tag position>Chunk data—Used where data is treated as a single chunk, without further parsing CK, <tag flag>, <tag position> or extractHint CK[, <from position>, <to position>] for idHint.Fixed length—Used where data occupies a fixed number of characters FL, <from position>, <to position>.Extract hint—Used to extract a fixed number of characters from the extract hint EH, <from position>, <to position>.Parameter | Values | Description |
open brace character | any sequence of characters | The character(s) used to identify the beginning of the block or field |
close brace character | any sequence of characters | The character(s) used to identify the end of the block or field |
delimiting character | any character | A single character that separates fields |
from position | numeric character | Starting character position used to extract fixed length data from the raw data after the block characters have been stripped off. First character is position 0. |
to position | numeric character | Last character position plus one used to extract fixed length data. |
tag flag | T or N | T (tagged)—Field tag is included with the data. N (not tagged)—Data does not include the tag field |
tag position | S or E | S (start)—Data tag precedes the data. E (end)—Data tag follows the data. |