Reply To: Perl over SMAT – The search begins

[Richard Hart]

Tony.

I have a Perl script that parses SMAT files with usage below.

If you can code Perl, this can easily be changed.

Usage: /hci/InfoHEALTH/bin/smatList.sh  [-v] [-h] [-p] [-fp] [-a] [-fa] [-m] [-fm] -o [file2] …

Where -h          help!

     -v          verbose mode

     -o    the output file. See Note below

     -p  the Patient Code (MRN). This can be repeated

     -fp   a file containing Patient Codes (MRN), one per line

     -a  the Account Number. This can be repeated

     -fa   a file containing Account Numbers, one per line

     -m  the Medical Staff ID or GP Code (for Master File Updates). This can be repeated

     -fm   a file containing Medical Staff codes, one per line

     file1       is a Cloverleaf SMAT file, compressed or uncompressed

    The output file supplied will have a suffix _xxx.dat, where

    xxx is the file number in the range 1 through 999.

    Each file will contain  a maximum of 1000 records.