Can EDI document contain a NUL (0x00) character inside?

Question

I have a question about EDI document (either x12 or edifact format), Does anyone know that can it contain a NUL (0x00) character inside? Since I am implementing an EDI parser and parsing terminates once it encounters NUL char.

Thanks

Answer 1

yes, of course it can. in edifact, there are character sets, eg UNOA, UNOB, UNOC. 0x00 is not part of UNOA, but it is part of UNOC (AFAIK). x12: I am not sure. They have rules, but AFAIK not well followed. btw, for an open source edifact/x12 parser see: http://bots.sourceforge.net