"Robert Fuchs" <nix@nix.at> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> an EDIFACT segment starts with a 3 letter acronym and ends with an
> apostrophe.
> Segments consist of composites, delimited by a plus sign, and composites
> consist of data elements, delimited by semicolon, eg.:
>
> BGM+220:::Order+0040750+9'
>
>
> There is an additional rule, when a delimiter will need to be interpreted
> as a normal character and not a delimiter. This can be detected by a
> question mark preceding the delimiter, eg.:
>
> FTX+AAI+++ROCK?'N?'ROLL'
>
> The question mark itself is repesented as ??.
>
> Now my problem is, that the Split() method doesn't recognize this.
> Is there any other fancy class/method in the framework I could use, or do
> I have to go the hard way by reading each character into a state machine -
> like I did in C for decades?
>
> regards, Robert
>
>

"Robert Fuchs" <nix@nix.at> wrote in message
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>
>> There definitely isn't any method in the framework that will do this.
>> You ^might^ be able to craft a regular expression for this, but it could
>> be pretty unwieldy (especially if you are not familiar with them).
>>
>> If you already have the code for a state machine in C++, you should be
>> able to leverage that, or in the worst case scenario, convert it to C#.
>
> I was concerned about that.
> I have done a lot of C programming for more than 20 years, but not so much
> C++, unfortunately.
> When I switched to C#, I found myself writing a lot of stuff which was
> already in the framework.
> I googled for EDIFACT and was surprised that there is so little
> information available.
>
> Thanks, Robert
>

> There definitely isn't any method in the framework that will do this.
> You ^might^ be able to craft a regular expression for this, but it could
> be pretty unwieldy (especially if you are not familiar with them).
>
> If you already have the code for a state machine in C++, you should be
> able to leverage that, or in the worst case scenario, convert it to C#.