Some EDI software has a default recommended delimiter set that it preferes to use. In that case I would include those in my specification.

If your EDI application does not care or have a prefferenece, I recommend using the ^|~ combination, or ^ for the element delimieter, | for the sub-element, and ~ for the segment delimiter.

You can find an example and more discussion on this at my EDI Enveloping post about the ISA.

Let me know if there are more questions, please let me know.

Roy

Where can I find those recommended delimeters you refer to?

Included with my EDI Usage Specification are a set of recommended delimiters. I set my transformer to use them as default, and encourage my trading partners to do the same.

I searched the site without success…

Thanks,

CAL