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  • March 19, 2010 at 5:10 pm #51642
    Doug Lundin
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      We are checking OBX.5 and trying to get rid of any special characters such as hex c2 and hex 95.  Tried this in the translation if statement and (ct) contains, but can’t seem to get it to work.  Any suggestions

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      • March 19, 2010 at 6:09 pm #71074
        Gary Atkinson
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          Check in a tcl proc before the translation.

        • March 19, 2010 at 6:30 pm #71075
          Jim Kosloskey
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            Or –

            If it is just OBX-5 that has the issue AND if they are not the character set defined in MSH-1 and MSH-2 you want to affect, you could use a xltp type Tcl proc inside the Xlate when COPYing the OBX-5 field.

            email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

          • March 19, 2010 at 9:51 pm #71076
            Charlie Bursell
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              set inp [lindex $xlateInVals 0]

              regsub -all — {[^x20-x7e} $inp {} inp

              set xlateOutVals

                # Gets rid of all non-printing characters

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