Framework EDI Reference. Methods and Properties
ediSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire

Adds a string that will be or become part of the alphabetic character set.

Syntax:

• <lRetVal> = object.AddAlphabetRepertoire(<string>)

 Parameters:

• String – A complete string or sub string of alphabetic character set.  Multiple calls to this method will append the substring passed as parameter to the total alphabetic character repertoire that will be used to verify the validity of data element values having an Alphabetic (A) data type.

Controlling Agency:

• UN/EDIFACT

Remarks

The complete alphabetic character repertoire is used to verify a data element value of Alphabetic character data type.  The character repertoire is represented internally as a binary object which allows alphabetic definitions to transcend the A-Z English alphabet.  Characters in the string can also be represented as a string of decimal ASCII value using the format: {DD,DD,…}. 

Example 1.  To add the English alphabet from A to Z.

 oSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire(“ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”)

 Or,

 oSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire(“ABCDEFGHIJ”)

oSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire(“KLMNOPQRS”)

oSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire(“TUVWXYZ”)

 

 Example 2.  To represent the letter C in decimal.

 oSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire(“AB{43}DEFGHIJ”)

Example 3.  To represent the letter CDE in decimal string.

 oSyntaxLevel.AddAlphabetRepertoire(“AB{43,44,45}FGHIJ”)