First of all, ++ to you, simply for being (probably) the only other monk here that uses perl for X12. I'm just curious, which X12 transactions do you work with? I, coming from healthcare, do a lot with 270/271, 835 and 837. Personally, I use a somewhat more complicated library (written mostly by me) for handling X12's. So much fun.

Anyway, as to your particular implementation: I've found that some EDI sources use (almost certainly non-compliantly... but the spec has some minor vagueries) an "\r\n" pair as their segment separator, or, even wackier include a following linefeed (and/or carriage return) after their segment separator (since this is how the spec examples tend to make the files appear). So I end up with using: 

($isa =~ /.{105}(.?\r?\n?)/)[0]

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as my segment separator.

P.S. In other geeky stories... have you ever had to have an argument with your boss about why "grep" is inappropriate for X12 files?


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In reply to Re: Getting an ANSI X.12 file's delimiters by etcshadow
in thread Getting an ANSI X.12 file's delimiters by delirium

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