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This is a strange request but has anyone replaced the sub field deliminators from {^} to {|} [ caret to pipe) within a filed. I have a request from the TDS group (TDS 7000) that in order to file an update to a specific field i should replace the caret to pipe in the PID.3 field.
PID.3 = MRN^HOSP ID^PDF NO^EPISODE NO to |MRN|HOSP ID|PDF NO|EPISODE NO|PID.4 field.|
Any ideas and thank you all for the help and tips that you creative clovertechies provide.
Amol
Mount Sinai Med Ctr
New York
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I think you need to dig a little deeper into what they actually need. It does not make sense for them to all of a sudden, for one particular field, ask you to ignore the HL7 field and subfield delimiters.
If it turns out that you have to replace the ^ for pipes in this case, you will most likely need to use an xlate post-proc.
Can you paste an inbound sample message and a correct outbound sample message?
-- Max Drown (Infor)
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Amol, I agree with Max that this makes no sense.
Once you make the carets in this one field vertical pipes, PID-3 no longer becomes PID-3 it now becomes PID-3, PID-4, through PID-6 and your original PID-4 becomes PID-7.
I suspect that should throw everything in the PID off and possibly you will lose some of the fields at the end of the PID.
email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.
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Bala,
Be careful when doing manipulation such as that using the HL7 encoding characters. Remember that the regsub you mentioned with the tilde and caret affects the subfields within a particular field. If you were to attempt to regsub either of those with a pipe, then you affect the whole structure of the entire segment, as Jim pointed out.
Thanks…Tom
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