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Output Format
MS-860 Industrial Raster Reader User’s Manual
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Wildcard Character
Placeholder Character
Wildcard/Placeholder Matches
Both Wildcard Character and Placeholder Character can be mixed in the same filter data.
You can regard wildcard marks as the end of matching, whereas a placeholder requires
identical data both before and after the placeholder.
For example:
Filter data “
123*
” matches “123”, “123456”, “123ABC” but not “12”.
Filter data “ 123*AB?C ” will be interpreted as “123*”
Filter data “
123?A?
” matches “1234AB”, “123BAT”, but not “1234A” or “123BATS”.
Filter data “ 12??* ” matches “1234”, “123456”, “123ABC”, but not “12”, “123”.
Filter data “ 123?A* ” matches “1234A”, “123BA”, “123BATS”, but not “1234”, “1234C”.
Definition: Wildcard Character indicates that any number of characters that follow
the wildcard will be regarded as matches.
For example, “
123* ” will match “123”, “123456”, “123ABC”, but not “12”.
Filter data ”
123*AB?C
” will be interpreted as “123*”
Both Wildcard Character and Placeholder Character can be mixed in
the same filter data.
Serial Cmd: < K744, filter index,symbology type,length, wildcard character ,place-
holder character,data,decode direction,check database number>
Default: * = 2A
Options: Any pairings of hex digits representing an ASCII character; for
example, 2A = *
(00 = disabled)
Definition: Placeholder Character is a type of wild card that requires identical data
position.
For example, Filter data “
123? ”, will match all of the “1234”, “123A”, but
not “123”, “12345”, “1234C”.
Filter data “
123?A ” will match “1234A” and “123BA”, but not “123”,
“1234C” or “1234ABCD”
Both
Wildcard Character and Placeholder Character can be mixed in
the same filter data.
Serial Cmd: < K744, filter index,symbology type,length,wildcard character, place-
holder character ,data,decode direction,check database number>
Default: ? = 3F
Options:
Any ASCII input as pair of hex digit; e.g., 3F=’?’
(00 = disabled)
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