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  • August 9, 2005 at 8:36 pm #47953
    Victor Ligenza
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      I have an issue that I was attempting to take care of in an .xlt.  The issue is my Mysis lab system prefixes the facility code to the MR number in the PID 3 field.  What I get is a value of 50999999999.  The 50 being the facility and the 999999999 being a 9 digit MR#, leading zeros are included in the MRN#.  My first thought was to subtract 50000000000 from the PID 3 and place only the resulting MR# in the outbound data.  I dicovered that a @variable in the translation configuration can only by nine digits long.  If I had to write a tcl proc would I have the same limitations.  I have next to no tcl experience so I wanted to know if this would be a problem before I began.

      Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions.

      Victor Ligenza

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      • August 9, 2005 at 11:37 pm #57148
        Charlie Bursell
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          Put this fragment in with your COPY statement

          set xlateOutVals

            2 end]]

          1. August 10, 2005 at 1:28 pm #57149
            Victor Ligenza
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              Thank you Charlie!!!!!

              I see in your author description you are a clovertech teacher.  Can you recommend an education path to bring someone up to speed on tcl.

            • August 10, 2005 at 1:48 pm #57150
              Charlie Bursell
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                Get a copy of Bent Welch’s book

                “Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk”

                Brent Welch, Ken Jones and Jeff Hobbs

                4th Edition

                Prentice Hall – ISBN 0-13-038560-3

                Get a copy of TclTutor at

                http://www.msen.com/~clif/TclTutor.html

                Quovadx offers a Tcl Class

                If you have any sort of programming background with any language or scripting,  Tcl is easy to learn.  We can teach you Tcl but we cannot teach you programming.  Most of us were in our second year of college before we could even spell Programmer.

                Charlie

              • May 9, 2008 at 5:25 pm #57151
                Dave Loricchio
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                  Hi,

                  I’ve tried putting this fragment with the COPY statement, in the input/output pre-tcl box.  

                  set xlateOutVals

                    2 end]]

                    The code is not stripping off the first two digits of the patient ID.  Do you have any ideas about what I can do?  I know very little about tcl.

                    Thanks,

                    Dave

                  1. May 9, 2008 at 6:39 pm #57152
                    Kevin Kinnell
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                      Well, the code should strip the first two characters off of any string, so there must be something going on with your xlate.

                      Not saving the xlate before I run another test on it is the usual culprit for me. 🙄

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