[PLUG] Perl and Electronic Data Interchange

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Bonds <1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com> writes:

Steve> Does anyone know of any perl modules to parse ASC X12 EDI data?
Steve> The usual Google and CPAN searches came up with very little.  ("x12 perl",
Steve> "x12 isa perl", etc.)  The most promising search was the "x12 isa
Steve> perl" which led to Paul Santoro's AT&T broadband home page where he'd
Steve> written up a nice document on parsing X12 on linux with C code.

Steve> ... but no perl modules.

Steve> It might have something to do with the fact that the X12 standards doc
Steve> costs $600.  :-)

You might see if the other party would be willing to set up or
exchange "ebxml", which is an international standard adopted by the
United Nations, and is XML (easy to parse :) and supposed to put an
end to the EDI nonsense.

See http://www.ebxml.org/ for more info.

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