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I wrote an ACH generator in Thoroughbred Script-IV[1] as an intern. It was pretty funny when my malformed ACH file generated $1 out of thin air (the bank took the dollar back a few days later). Trying to do JSON in Script-IV would have been quite a challenge.

One thing I remember was I think there were 3 different places in the ACH file to insert company name, and they were fixed length, each with a different length. I had a list of companies to support, so for each company, I carefully created 3 different abbreviated names for it, one for each length, applying more extreme abbreviation strategies for the shorter lengths.

[1] http://www.thoroughbredsoftware.com/reference/DOCUMENTATION/...




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