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Friday, October 29, 2010

Match Code Start Position Feature


To Match a string of characters within a bar code but not the whole string, the actual match code string must be the same length - thanks Help Desk!
For Example
If you have a 14 digit bar code that is NNN1111057NNNN and you only want to look at 1111057, the match code that is stored/taught to the scanner must be 14 characters so teaches the scanner. says start at character 4 and compare the next 7.

We're having a reader upstream send the match string to the 870. The Matchcode output string will actually fire output 1 for a Match and output 3 for a Mismatch