Intermate 100 manual Planning

[Substitution Strings]: Planning

21.2. Planning

As shown in “[Logical Printers 1-8]” [page 151], it is easy to tell a logical printer to use one or more (even all) of the string pairs defined in [Substitution Strings].

What is difficult is the planning when you want more than one substitution string to be used. If there is any overlap in the con- tent of the input strings, you must carefully control the order in which you enter the string # in the “String Substitutions” field for the logical printer in question.

Example: You want to use the following substitution strings in logical printer x, where the input strings encode like this:

Input String 1: trs98

Input String 5: trs98563

Input String 8: 98

Input String 8 is a subset of Input String 1, which in turn is a subset of Input String 5.

If you want to be sure that everything is interpreted correctly, you must order your entries in the “String Substitutions” field like this:

8,1,5

So, if you will be using substitution strings, you should define what they are to accomplish and number each pair of input and output strings, and examine them in detail. Do this on paper before you start entering data in the Intermate1xx.

For inspiration, see the examples in “Data Manipulation in the Logical Printer Layer” [page 127] and “Working with NDO Load Balancing Pools and Data Manipulation” [page 133]

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