Reply To: how to keep spaces between values in results on obx field

Nancy,

Maybe I am not clearly understanding your need but I think a CONCAT will do the trick.

As I understand it you have two fields: OBX-5 (which might contain the value AMIKACIN) and OBX-? (the abnormal flag – let’s say it has a value of Y). Then betweem these two fields you want some finite number of spaces (let’s say 2).

So you want a resulting OBX-5 field to have ‘AMIKACIN  Y’.

A CONCAT with this in the Source list substitute the correct address path for the OBX references:

OBX-5

=  <--there are two spaces here OBX-?    <--- this is the abnormal flag field. The destinatiom would be OBX-5. I don’t think there is any need for Tcl – unless you need a variable rather than fixed number of spaces. I tested this on CL5.2 Patch2 and it worked fine. Jim Kosloskey