Convert HL7 to Binary

[Jorge Medina]

Anyone know if Cloverleaf supports converting HL7 to binary? If so, how would one accomplish such a feat?

Thank you.

Jorge

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[Jim Kosloskey]

I have never done this but I think you would need to use Tcl.

I am assuming you mean the whole HL/7 message but even if it is another string:

binary encode hex $myString

Jim

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

[Charlie Bursell]

The operative question is why?  HL7 is an ASCII protocol

[Jason Russell]

I’d love to know the use-case for this. Jim’s put in the most basic response on the how, but I’d like to know the ‘why’. Also are you wanting to get a hex equivalent or the pure binary (AA vs 00000000)? Either way you have to think about encoding, and what you are encoding to/from. As Charlie pointed out, HL7 is an ASCII protocol, but doing anything beyond the basic 127 charset need to know the encoding value (Epic/windows defaults to windows-1252, and a lot of people are turning to UTF-8 as a default ). Figuring out those charsets are… not fun.

Are you trying to capture control characters to start/stop a message or just want a way to encode/decode a string

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