Framework EDI Reference. Methods and Properties
ediSyntaxLevel.AddCharacterRepertoire

Adds a string that will be or become part of the special character sets, outside of the alphabetic and numeric character sets.

Syntax:

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

 Parameters:

• String – A complete string or sub string of special character set.  Multiple calls to this method will append the substring passed as parameter to the total special  character sets that, together with the alphabetic and numeric character sets, will be used to verify the validity of data element values having an Alphanumeric (AN) data type.

Controlling Agency:

• UN/EDIFACT

Remarks

The character set is represented internally as a binary which allows any special character to be part of the character set.  Special characters in the string can also be represented as a string of decimal ASCII values using the format: {DD,DD,…}.  

Example 1.  To add the carriage return-line feed character pair.

 oSyntaxLevel.AddCharacterRepertoire (“{13,10}”)