Control Code Replacement Examples
Control Code Replacement Examples
Configuration
data
Translation
Example
Control
Character
Example
configuration
Translated data
Ignore(drop)
The control character is discarded from
the barcode data, prefix and suffix
ESCape
‘Ignore (drop)’
0x1B in the barcode is
discarded.
Printable text
Text is substituted for Control Character. Start of TeXt
‘STX’
0x02 in a barcode is converted
to the text ‘STX’.
Hat-encoded
text
The hat-encoded text is translated to the
equivalent hex value.
Carriage Return ‘^M’
Value 0x0d in a barcode is
converted to the value 0x0d.
Escaped hat-
encoded text
The hat-encoding to pass thru to the
application.
Horizontal Tab
‘\^I’
Value 0x09 in a barcode is
converted to the text ‘^I’.
Hex-encoded
text
The hex-encoded text is translated to the
equivalent hex value.
Carriage Return ‘0x0A’
Value 0x0D in a barcode is
converted to a value 0x0A.
Escaped hex-
encoded text
The hex-encoding to pass thru to the
application.
Vertical Tab
‘\0x0A’ or
‘0\x0A’
Value 0x0C is a barcode is
converted to text ‘0x0A’
Barcode Processing Examples
The following table shows examples of stripping and prefix/suffix configurations. The examples assume that the scanner is
configured to transmit an AIM identifier.
Symbology
All
EAN-128 (]C1)
EAN-13 (]E0)
Intrlv 2 of 5 (]IO)
Code93
Enable
Enabled
Enabled
Enabled
Enabled
Disabled
Min length
1
4
1
1
Max length
all
all
all
10
Strip Code ID
Enabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Strip Leading
3
0
3
3
Strip Barcode Data
‘*123’
‘1*’
‘456’
Strip Trailing
0
0
3
3
Prefix
‘aaa’
‘bbb’
‘ccc’
‘ddd’
Suffix
‘www’
‘xxx’
‘yyy’
‘zzz’
Provided that the wedge is configured with the above table, below are examples of scanned barcode data and results of these
manipulations.
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