checking a string to see if it contains special characters

[Doug Lundin]

We are checking OBX.5 and trying to get rid of any special characters such as hex c2 and hex 95.  Tried this in the translation if statement and (ct) contains, but can’t seem to get it to work.  Any suggestions

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[Gary Atkinson]

Check in a tcl proc before the translation.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Or –

If it is just OBX-5 that has the issue AND if they are not the character set defined in MSH-1 and MSH-2 you want to affect, you could use a xltp type Tcl proc inside the Xlate when COPYing the OBX-5 field.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Charlie Bursell]

set inp [lindex $xlateInVals 0]

regsub -all — {[^x20-x7e} $inp {} inp

set xlateOutVals

# Gets rid of all non-printing characters

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