Clearing fields in an XLATE

[Tim Pashon]

I have an xlate where I do a pathcopy on the PV1 segment.  In the physician fields, such as PV1.7, I only want to xlate the physician code with EXTID in PV1.7.12.  In my code, I want to clear all of PV1.7 in the receiving map and use an IF statement to send only the code with EXTID.  This seems simple, but not all of the data is being cleared out of PV1.7 with my clear statement.  I copy @null to PV1.7 and I also have tried many other variations of that.  Any ideas for me?

Thanks

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[Levy Lazarre]

Tim,

If you want to clear all the subfields in PV1.7, you should use a PATHCOPY @null to PV1.7 instead of COPY. Then you can copy the desired data element to the output.

I hope this helps.

[Tim Pashon]

Thanks much.  That does the trick.  Much better than moving every field in the segment!

Thanks again.

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