1. ZPL II, ZBI 2, Set-Get-Do, Mirror, WML Programming Guide
  2. ZPL Commands
  3. ^FE
  • ZPL II, ZBI 2, Set-Get-Do, Mirror, WML Programming Guide
^FE

^FE

The
^FE
 command allows field data concatenation and substring extraction by referencing
^FN
 fields.
The
^FE
 command must precede each
^FD
 command where it is used and only applies to that
^FD
 field. If a
^FE
 does not immediately precede a
^FD
, then there is no field concatenation character active for that
^FD
.
Format:
^FEa
Parameters
Details
a
Values:
Any character except the current format and control prefix (^ and ~ by default).
Default:
#
This delimiter, when defined, will be used to specify data from
^FN
 fields, or parts thereof, that will be inserted into a
^FD
 field. For the following description, it is assumed that the
^FE
 character is the default character,
#
. There are two ways to insert data: including an entire
^FN
 field and including part of a
^FN
 field.
To insert an entire
^FN
 field, the syntax placed in the
^FD
 field would be
#
n
#
, where n is the number of the
^FN
. As an example:
^FN2^FDField FN 2 Data^FS
^FN3^FDField FN 3 Data^FS
^FE#^FD#2# and then #3#^FS
would result in the final
^FD
 with the data
Field FN2 Data and then Field FN3 Data
.
To insert part of a
^FN
 field, the syntax placed in the
^FD
 field would be
#n,a,x,y#
, where:
Parameters
Detail
n
The number of the
^FN
 from which the data is taken.
a
 either
f
 or
b
f
 (for forward) indicates that data is taken from the from the start of the
^FN
, and
b
 (for backward) indicates that data is taken from the end.
x
The starting position counts from the first or last character. 1 indicates start with the first character. If
a
 is
b
, then x starts counting from the end of the data and counts backward, so 1 would be starting from the last character. 0 is invalid, and the field inserting description is ignored, which is also the case for negative numbers
y
The number of characters to take. If y is greater than the number of characters available, all the characters are taken from the starting position to the last character.
For the following examples, the first two lines of ZPL are assumed to be:
^FN2^FDField FN 2 Data^FS
^FN3^FDField FN 3 Data^FS
Example 1
^FE#^FD#2,f,1,5#^FS
Results in the data
Field
.
Example 2
^FE#^FD#2,f,7,4#^FS
results in the data
FN 2
Example 3
^FE#^FD#2,b,1,4#^FS
Results in the data
Data
Example 4
^FE#^FD#2# and #3,f,10,6#^FS
Results in the data
Field FN 2 Data and 3 Data

Supported Zebra Printers

  • ZD421C
  • ZD421D
  • ZD621D
  • ZD621T
  • ZT411
  • ZT421
  • ZT510
  • ZT610
  • ZT620