NCPDP Telecom tokens
The token term was created to avoid confusion with other terms that may be meaningful in an NCPDP Telecom context.
Tokens have these characteristics:
- Tokens refer to grammatical elements in an NCPDP Telecom message definition, and are generally equivalent to an NCPDP Telecom field.
- They can also refer to an NCPDP Telecom header segment, which contains multiple fields.
- The header tokens are names
REQ
for requests andRES
for responses. - The
TRN
token indicates the start of an NCPDP Telecom transaction. - Other tokens indicate grouping, and include the curly brace, parenthesis, and square bracket.