5.3 xlate question

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April 17, 2007 at 1:50 pm #49211

Daniel Bantaa
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I’m trying to do an xlate from HL7 2.2 to HL7 2.2. I am having trouble with PID (3).

Example –> PID:::000123456;;;A~000123456;;;B

After the xlate, I would like the output to look like

PID:::123456

I know how to strip off the leading zeroes, but how do I also remove the rest of the sub-fields?

Thanks in advance.
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- April 17, 2007 at 3:51 pm #61111
  
  Elizabeth Wilson
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  Are you using bulkcopy or pathcopy? If so, you have repeating fields there, you need to use ITER and copy blanks to the rest of subfields. If not, then individually copy only the fields that you want.
- April 17, 2007 at 4:13 pm #61112
  
  Vince Angulo
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  We skipped from 5.2 to 5.4, but I’ve used this method successfully:
  
  PathCopy @null -> 0(0).PID.00106
  
  Copy 0(0).PID.00106.[0]->0(0).PID.00106.[0]
  
  The pathcopy will null all all components of PID-3 (since it works at the root level of the path), the copy (via your zero-stripping proc) will just move the first element of the first repeat to the target side.
- April 18, 2007 at 12:56 pm #61113
  
  Daniel Bantaa
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  The Pathcopy worked great thanks for your help Vince.
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