Reply To: Changing T back to & – Part 2

I’m surely not an expert on Cloverleaf, but since no one else has responded yet, I’ll offer my 2 cents worth.

First a point of confusion.  You say that when you run your code as a pre proc you get the output you expect of just ’73’.  But it seems like you should actually be populating the outbound field with ’73 LEEDS & BRADFORD’, and then maybe the receiving system would truncate it to just the first subcomponent of ’73 LEEDS ‘, but not just ’73’.

As for your main question, I think that is just the way that Cloverleaf works.  I frankly don’t understand why they even have an xlate post proc, but I believe that it’s pointless to put any code there and that the only way you can alter the content of what gets copied to the output record is to use the pre proc.  I hope someone will correct me if I am wrong here.  But is there any reason you felt you needed to use the post proc instead of the pre proc?