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  • March 16, 2012 at 3:38 pm #53000
    Tom Arrowsmith
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      In the Cloverleaf Engine we want to use the ct function (contains) in an IF statement. In this particular case, we want to see if the value contains an asterix ( * ) What is the syntax for this?

      We tried the following:

      1.     IF hl7 field ct *

      2.     IF hl7 field ct =*

      3.     IF hl7 field ct

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      • March 16, 2012 at 3:59 pm #76206
        Ian Morris
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          I haven’t had much luck comparing a string to a variable/field within an if statement.  In this situation I would set a variable like this:

          =* COPY @testvar

          Then I would compare @testvar to the value you want to use.

          Also, your example may work if you make your escape character like “” instead of “/”.  I think you are using it backwards.

          Tom Arrowsmith wrote:

          In the Cloverleaf Engine we want to use the ct function (contains) in an IF statement. In this particular case, we want to see if the value contains an asterix ( * ) What is the syntax for this?

          We tried the following:

          1.

        • March 23, 2012 at 4:12 pm #76207
          Jon Blanchard
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            <span style="color: Indigo]One option is to set a temp variable to the boolean result of a tcl snippet using the regexp statement, i.e.”>

            Code:

            COPY action:

            Inbound=

            tclproc=set xlateOutVals [list [regexp — {*} [lindex $xlateInVals 0] ] ]

            Outbound=


            The result of the regexp will be 0 or 1.

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          • April 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm #76208
            Paul Von
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              I was having the same issue and someone suggested this to me and it worked great.

              1) Assign the asterisk

               a. Copy   =*   to   @asterisk

              2) Check if it is in the string

               a. 0(0).PID(0).#18(0) ct @asterisk

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