error handling for quotes in hl7 messages

[Nancy McDaniel]

I just had a problem where we received a couple of HL7 messages with double quotes in the NTE segments.  This caused my tcl proc (which does some filtering) to fail.

Any recommendations on the best way to 1) remove the double quotes and/or 2) put in some error handling to handle these types of errors.

thanks,

Nancy

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[Abe Rastkar]

Nancy,

The quote characters may be needed by the receiving application. If So, then you can insert an escape character before each double quote.

For example,

    regsub -all — “”” $str {\”} newstr

Where str is you message or segment.

Abe Rastkar

UMO Health Care

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