Change Delimiter From | to ;

[AmyLBauer]

I am trying to replace the “|” delmiter with a “;” via a tcl proc.  I know this can be done in an Xlate but was trying to avoid building one since I didn’t need to so far.  I do not get the desired results when using this command in an outbound or inbound TPS:

regsub -all — “|” $origMsg “;” NewMsg

Can someone tell me how to make this change ?

Thanks.

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Hi Amy,

Try:

 regsub -all — {|} $origMsg {;} NewMsg

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[garry r fisher]

Hi Amy,

Robert’s suggestion should work but just to clarify something – if you want to ‘work’ on any of the reserved HL7 characters i.e &^~| then you need to use a backslash – yes this means becomes \.

Also use the {} braces to delimit your code – it makes it easier to read as well as helping the parser.

Regards

Garry

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