ISA16 Comp Elem Sep

Description

Allows you to enter a value that changes the component element default delimiter.

The data element type is not applicable. The component element separator is a delimiter and not a data element. This field provides the delimiter used to separate component data elements within a composite data structure. This value must be different from the data element separator and the segment terminator.

Required Values

Enter the appropriate delimiter override character.

If you use nondefault delimiters (for example, if you use “!” for segment terminator in v4060), you must ensure that your business rules manually pass the nondefault delimiters into the ExStdEvent/PayloadSection/Envelopes/BusinessProtocol/ location, that is, pass the ISA into .../Batch/Header, the IEA into .../Batch/Trailer, the GS into .../Group/Header, and the GE into .../Group/Trailer.

To use a control character as a delimiter, pass the escaped Unicode UTF-16 representation of the character (\uXXXX). For example, if you wanted to use a carriage return (ASCII 0x0d) as a delimiter, you would pass the string \u000d.

Default

Colon (:) character