Control Characters
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Whenever you parse or serialize messages by default this library will either use the UNA segment from the file you’re parsing, or the default characters.
If you want to produce a file using custom characters, you can override them like so:
$characters = (new \Estrato\Edifact\Control\Characters())
->withComponentSeparator(":")
->withDataSeparator("+")
->withDecimalPoint(".")
->withEscapeCharacter("?")
->withSegmentTerminator("'")
->withReservedSpace(" ");
$serializer = new \Estrato\Edifact\Serializer($characters);
$ediMessageContent = $serializer->serialize(...$segments);
You can do the same while parsing (although it will normally be ignored and the UNA segment’s specification will be respected), but if you have a bad file that doesn’t have a UNA segment and still uses different settings from the default then you provide your own control characters like so:
$characters = (new \Estrato\Edifact\Control\Characters())
->withSegmentTerminator("^");
$parser = new \Estrato\Edifact\Parser();
$segments = $parser->parse($ediMessageContent, $characters);
foreach ($segments as $segment) {