Control Code Replacement Examples
Configuration
data
Translation
Example Con-
trol Character
Example con-
figuration
Translated data
Ignore(drop)
The control character is discarded from
the bar code data, prefix and suffix
ESCape ‘Ignore (drop)’
0x1B in the bar code is dis-
carded.
Printable text Text is substituted for Control Character. Start of TeXt ‘STX’
0x02 in a bar code 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 bar code is con-
verted to the value 0x0d.
Escaped hat-
encoded text
The hat-encoding to pass thru to the appli-
cation.
Horizontal Tab ‘\^I’
Value 0x09 in a bar code is con-
verted 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 bar code is
converted to a value 0x0A.
Escaped hex-
encoded text
The hex-encoding to pass thru to the appli-
cation.
Vertical Tab
‘\0x0A’ or
‘0\x0A’
Value 0x0C is a bar code is
converted to text ‘0x0A’
Bar Code 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 Bar Code 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, following are examples of scanned bar code data and results of
these manipulations.
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