Business::Edifact::Message - Class that models Edifact Messages

       Colin Campbell, "<colinsc@cpan.org>"

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-edifact-interchange at rt.cpan.org", or through the
       web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Business-Edifact-Interchange>.  I will
       be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

       Copyright 2011-2014 Colin Campbell.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-10-13                    Business::Edifact::Message(3pm)

       Business::Edifact::Message - Class that models Edifact Messages

new
       Called by Business::Edifact::Interchange to instantiate a new Message object. The caller passes the
       header fields with the reference number identifier and message type

   add_segment
       Process the next data segment

   type
       return the message's type e.g. 'QUOTES' or 'ORDERS'

   function
       Returns the message's function field May be 'original' or 'retransmission'

   message_code
       Returns 3 character message code from the BGM message

   currency_codereference_numberdate_of_messageitems
       return the list of lineitems

   handle_bgmhandle_dtm
       NB DTM can occur in different segment groups

   handle_pathandle_rffhandle_cuxhandle_nadhandle_linhandle_piahandle_imdhandle_qtyhandle_girhandle_moahandle_taxhandle_alchandle_rtehandle_lochandle_prihandle_unshandle_cnthandle_ftxhandle_pcdclear_item_flags
        clear flags at start of new item or summary

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

           perldoc Business::Edifact::Message

       Parses an individual Edifact message Message objects are instantiated by Business::Edifact::Interchange
       and an array of them is returned in its messages function
          $interchange->parse($incoming);
          my $m_array = $interchange->messages();
          for my $msg (@{$m_array}) {
             ...retrieve message data
          }

       Version 0.07