I'm working with the combination of a Micrologix 1200, a Data Station DSPSX000 and a Keyence SR-1000 scanner. My code in the data station is essentially lifted from a red lion example. Everything works except I'm getting a bunch of extra characters in the PLC. Within the data station, I'm attempting to write the data from the barcode scanner to ST101:1. The data is 30 characters.... What I wind up with is the 30 characters, + 50 spaces, + 80 spaces in ST101:2 and some spaces and garbage in ST101:3. I could work around this easily enough but it seems like I must have missed something. I've tried combinations of a read character limit in the data station along with setting a prefix and suffix in the reader and trying to use those in the portinput command in the data station. Everything I try yields roughly the same result. Some combinations remove the characters in ST101:3 but leave the spaces.