a little tcl help

[Kevin Crist]

i am sending assigned patient location to a system that needs the bed location to look like this 4E^412-2^^. Currently it is 4E^412^2. I know i could copy over subfields but this is for orders in hl7 2.2 and there is only the 0. How would i do this using a little tcl?

Thanks in advance.

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[Gary Atkinson]

You don’t need to use tcl.  Just concat the .[1] and .[2] with a ‘-‘ in a xlate.  I believe even if your variant does not have the sub fields it should still work.

[Tom Rioux]

Kevin,

Gary is right.  I have double checked it on my xlate that uses 2.2.  You can do it in the xlate without need for tcl.

Tom Rioux

[Kevin Crist]

i see. Wasnt aware of that, but now i know. Worked like a charm.

Thanks guys.

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