Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dcatonline@hotmail.com (Pete Thane) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: differentiating barcode data from keyboard entry Date: 12 Dec 2003 06:35:51 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <172e8784.0312111009.64eb860e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.50.187.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1071239751 8759 127.0.0.1 (12 Dec 2003 14:35:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.tools:83976 The only way you could do it would be to have the bar code scanner transmit the data string together with a non-printable character, such as an . You could then have the sofware strip it out this character, having recorded it as being scanned rather than typed, before it populates the data field. Most scanners will allow you to add on a prefix or suffix character(s) although normally with KBW scanners they already have a CR LF command or similar as a suffix.