Reply To: I’ve spent too much time on this…

It funny that you should mention that…I tried this also:

Quote:

echo $xlateInVals

set numbertoformat [lindex $xlateInVals 0]

echo $numbertoformat

set OutVal [format “%04d” $numbertoformat]

echo $OutVal

set OutList

echo $OutList

set xlateOutVals $OutList

echo $xlateOutVals

with the following results:

Quote:

3

3

0003

0003

0003

MESSAGE 1

0(0).MSH(0)  :  >|^~&|MCKESSON|AGH|HNAM|050|20050314150856||ADT^A08|07378|P|2.3|||AL|NE< 0(0).EVN(0)  :  >|A08|20050314150837< blah…blah…blah… 0(0).DG1(1)  :  >|3|||THIS IS JUST A TEST – ADMITTING DIAGNOSIS TEXT – IT IS THIS LONG >>>>>>>>>||AD<

You can see that the format is working correctly…just not getting to the DESTINATION.

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