05. EDI File Structure

Byte Length Explanation
0-1 2 Integer. File ID. See 04. EDI File ID Definition.
2-3 2 Integer. Field count.
4-5 2 Integer. Performance operation: 0: update or insert; 1: insert only; 2: truncate and insert.
10-19 10 Customer no. 
20-127   Reserved.
128-(x -1) 2 * field count Integer array, each element storing length of each record field.
x- Sum of above array Field data stored one after the other, without delimiters, in text format. Numbers are converted to text before being copied into byte array.

Note: The first 128 bytes are used as header to store common information.