Gs1-128 Data Identifier 37 Dropping Decimal Point

Legacy Poster

• 25. November 2015 10:17

Hi,

 

I'm trying to create a label using VBA from Excel, and my customer wishes to use the application identifier 37 (Number of units contained) to identify a weight held in tonnes, in a format #0.000. I'm passing the variable as a string in this format, but when it prints on the label, the decimal point is being removed, so, for example, a weight of 0.900 is displaying and scanning as 0900.

 

 I've defined the field in Bartender as a Number with Precision set to Fixed at 3 decimal places (see the attachment) [attachment=1926:QuantityDefinition.PNG], and passing it in the following way:

 

     btFormat.SetNamedSubStringValue "Quantity", Format(dblQuantity, "#0.000")

 

Can anyone offer any help as to what I am doing wrong?

 

 

Thanks and regards.

 

Cliff

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  Jenna Ingersoll

  Moderator

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 25. November 2015 18:28

  Make sure you're using a barcode symbology that supports ASCII characters (Code 128, Code 39 - Full ASCII, QR Code, etc).

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  Legacy Poster

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 1. Dezember 2015 15:13

  I'm using GS1-128, which supports ASCII. It will print periods OK in other fields of the barcode so I don't think it's that.

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  Parmeshwar Chavan

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 25. Juli 2023 17:08

  We are facing same problem please give solution,Gs1-128 Data Identifier 37 Dropping Decimal Point

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  Peter Thane

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 26. Juli 2023 07:28

  AI 37 is a quantity/count string so how can there be decimal places in it? 

  Even with say a 31 (or really 310X), for a weight, there is no decimal point encoded instead the number of decimal places is shown via the last digit so 100.15 would be displayed as (3102)010015 in the barcode.

  I could be wrong but I do not think a decimal point is a valid character in GS1 barcodes and they are all dealt with like the above 

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