Re: variable length variable for BARCODE DDS keyword?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do/could your bar codes have right-side guard bars?

If so can you scan for the right-side guard bars?


On 10/26/2016 7:07 AM, Darren Strong wrote:
> We barcode a part # with the BARCODE DDS keyword.  Currently, to allow for
> a 35 character field, and to make the barcode variable in size, I need to
> code 35 record formats, one for each possible length.  So, for example, I
> create a RBAR1, RBAR2, RBAR3, ..., and RBAR35.
>
> Is there a better way to handle this?  Here is an example DDS section:
>
>       A          R R1BAR13                   TEXT('RECORD - BAR')
>       A            RBAR13        13A  O      POSITION(&DWN &ACC)
>       A                                      BARCODE(CODE128 1 *HRZ *NOHRI +
>       A                                      *NOAST (*WIDTH .007))
>                    DWN            5S 3P
>                    ACC            5S 3P
>
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