Gorby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Wise Monks. Do you know about how to form ISO8583 messages? Do you have a sample formats that you can show me? Is there a perl module that handles this? Thanks a lot in advance. Gorby

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Re: ISO 8583
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Nov 07, 2003 at 15:09 UTC
    Do you know about how to form ISO8583 messages? Do you have a sample formats that you can show me? Is there a perl module that handles this?

    To the best of my knowledge there isn't a Perl module that deals with ISO 8583 messages (for those who don't know ISO 8583 is a standard for message passing in financial systems).

    If you're interested in writing one I'd suggest purchasing the standard from ISO, since that's the only way you'll get all the info you need.

    It will probably be worth your while looking at jPOS, a Java based financial transaction framework. It handles ISO 8583. It might be the simplest option to use it via Inline::Java.

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Re: ISO 8583
by ColtsFoot (Chaplain) on Nov 07, 2003 at 14:35 UTC
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Re: ISO 8583
by zby (Vicar) on Nov 07, 2003 at 14:32 UTC
    Update Shame on me (see liz response).

    Do you mean the ISO8583 character set? If yes all you need to do is to concatenate letters from it. Or convert something from other encoding - a usefull module for that would be Encode.

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      Is there such a thing as a ISO 8583 character set? A quick glance at Google reveals that it is a protocol rather than a character set. Googlism has some nice definitions.

      I must admit I was confused initially as well.

      Liz

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