Barcoding....

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Martin: I had to do this once. If memory serves correctly, what I did was convert the numeric item number to alpha and create an eval statement to append the "P" to the "alpha" version of the item number. I think it looked like this. movel(P) item# itemX eval bcitemx= 'P' + %trim(itemx) I THINK this is the method I used. hth.

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We got a customer that wants us to start barcoding our packing slips. Problem is, they want the barcode to have a prefix for certain fields; Q prefix on the quantity field, P prefix on the part number field, etc. We have our packing slips barcoded already for our own internal purposes, but adding a P prefix for the part# will mess that up for our use (although we might do it for this one customer). Otherwise, is it possible to add a prefix to the barcode via the DDS of the print file & maybe condition it so that you can decide within the program whether or not to print the prefixes in the barcodes or not ? Thanks for any help. Martin

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Bentley, Thanks for the help. I ended up doing exactly what you suggested: adding the prefix in the program code. Thanks, Martin