/// <summary> Encodes the given Type, using the given encoding characters.
/// It is assumed that the Type represents a complete field rather than a component.
/// </summary>
public static System.String encode(Type source, NuGenEncodingCharacters encodingChars)
{
System.Text.StringBuilder field = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
for (int i = 1; i <= Terser.numComponents(source); i++)
{
System.Text.StringBuilder comp = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
for (int j = 1; j <= Terser.numSubComponents(source, i); j++)
{
Primitive p = Terser.getPrimitive(source, i, j);
comp.Append(encodePrimitive(p, encodingChars));
comp.Append(encodingChars.SubcomponentSeparator);
}
field.Append(stripExtraDelimiters(comp.ToString(), encodingChars.SubcomponentSeparator));
field.Append(encodingChars.ComponentSeparator);
}
return(stripExtraDelimiters(field.ToString(), encodingChars.ComponentSeparator));
//return encode(source, encodingChars, false);
}