One or more of the records is longer or shorter than the fixed length of 996 characters. are characters at the end of the file that need to be removed. For example: an extra EOF marker, an additional CR/LF (if providing CR/LF there should only be one CR/LF at the end of the file) (see above), or binary zeros. The following tables show data records and elements. The tables contain the following standard columns: the start and end position of the field in the record. Character position – length the length of the data item in bytes. – Field format the format type of the field: – A is alphabetic (A-Z) - one byte per character. This field may be both upper and lower case and must be left justified. Characters not used must be blank filled. For example, SMITH in a ten character field would be reported as SMITHbbbbb. The character b is used to indicate blanks. AN is alphanumeric one byte per character. This may be both upper and lower case – and must be left justified. Characters not used must be blank filled For example 10 STREET in a 20 character alphanumeric field would be reported as 10bFIRSTbSTREETbbbbb. The character b is used to indicate blanks. DT is a date in DDMMCCYY format. If the day or month components are less than 10, insert a leading zero. For example: 26 March 2015 would be reported as 26032015 9 November 2015 would be reported as 09112015 If the date is mandatory it must be a valid date, otherwise see date under the optional field type on the next page. N is numeric (0-9), one byte per digit. Numeric fields must be right justified and zero filled. For example 123456 in a 11 digit field would be reported as 00000123456.
One or more of the records is longer or shorter than the fixed length of 996 characters. are characters at the end of the file that need to be removed. For example: an extra EOF marker, an additional CR/LF (if providing CR/LF there should only be one CR/LF at the end of the file) (see above), or binary zeros. The following tables show data records and elements. The tables contain the following standard columns: Character position – the start and end position of the field in the record. length – the length of the data item in bytes. Field format – the format type of the field: A is alphabetic (A-Z) - one byte per character. This field may be both upper and lower case and must be left justified. Characters not used must be blank filled. For example, SMITH in a ten character field would be reported as SMITHbbbbb. The character b is used to indicate blanks. AN is alphanumeric – one byte per character. This may be both upper and lower case and must be left justified. Characters not used must be blank filled For example 10 STREET in a 20 character alphanumeric field would be reported as 10bFIRSTbSTREETbbbbb. The character b is used to indicate blanks. DT is a date in DDMMCCYY format. If the day or month components are less than 10, insert a leading zero. For example: 26 March 2015 would be reported as 26032015 9 November 2015 would be reported as 09112015 If the date is mandatory it must be a valid date, otherwise see date under the optional field type on the next page. N is numeric (0-9), one byte per digit. Numeric fields must be right justified and zero filled. For example 123456 in a 11 digit field would be reported as 00000123456.