Iterate Help – Xlate Help

[Courtney Bush]

Hi there,

I’m working on a xlate (attached) that will handle both of these examples:

Example 1

MSH

PID

ORC

OBR

OBX-1

NTE-2

NTE-2

OBX-2

NTE-1

NTE-2

Example 2

MSH

PID

ORC

OBR

OBX-1

OBX-2

OBX-3

NTE-1

NTE-2

NTE-3

*Where the NTE segments “belong” to the last OBX segment – in this case OBX-3.

The xlate I have will handle Example 1 just fine, but will give me the following results for Example 2.

MSH

PID

ORC

OBR

OBX-1

NTE-1

NTE-2

NTE-3

My desired result is:

MSH

PID

ORC

OBR

OBX-1

OBX-2

OBX-3

NTE-1

NTE-2

NTE-3

I have messed with this xlate for a couple of days, and I have read all of the iterate posts on here that could be related, and I’m not any closer.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Courtney

Topic

[Courtney Bush]

OK, let’s try adding that attachment again….

[Anonymous]

Just looking at your example and thinking off the top of my head, I would want to first look at the nested iterate for the NTE segment.  With the results you are getting it sounds like you have a basis issue.  With the way you say it is acting, I would think  that the basis for the NTE iterate is set up as:

Basis= 1(0).NTE    variable= %s1

If this is the case, then try setting it up as

Basis= 1(%g1).NTE variable= %s1

Hope this helps.  Let me know if it doesn’t and I will tinker with your xlate.  You can email me direct.

Thomas Rioux

thomas.rioux@memorialhermann.org

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