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Miscellaneous Commands
Suppress characters
FB Suppress all occurrences of up to 15 different characters, starting at the
current cursor position, as the cursor is advanced by other commands.
When the FC command is encountered, the suppress function is
terminated. The cursor is not moved by the FB command.
Syntax = FBnnxxyy . .zz where nn is a count of the number of
suppressed characters in the list, and xxyy .. zz is the list of characters
to be suppressed.
FB Example: Remove spaces in bar code data
This example shows a bar code that has spaces in the data. You may
want to remove the spaces before sending the data. Using the bar
code above:
Command string: FB0120F10D
FB is the “Suppress characters” command
01 is the number of character types to be suppressed
20 is the hex value for a space
F1 is the “Send all characters” command
0D is the hex value for a CR
The data is output as: 34567890
<CR>
Stop suppressing characters
FC Disables suppress filter and clear all suppressed characters. Syntax =
FC.
Replace characters
E4 Replaces up to 15 characters in the output message, without moving
the cursor. Replacement continues until the E5 command is
encountered. Syntax = E4nnxx
1
xx
2
yy
1
yy
2
...zz
1
zz
2
where nn is the
total count of the number of characters in the list (characters to be
replaced plus replacement characters); xx
1
defines characters to be
replaced and xx
2
defines replacement characters, continuing through
zz
1
and zz
2
.
E4 Example: Replace zeroes with CRs in bar code data