Iterate more than one variable

[Elijah Park]

I’m trying to combine a provider’s npi and an internal id from 2 repetitive PV1-9 fields into one. Here is a simplified example of what I am trying to do…

Before:

PV1|||||||||1234^DOOLITTLE^DR^^^^^PID~1234567891^DOOLITTLE^DR^^^^^NPI

After:

PV1|||||||||1234^DOOLITTLE^DR^^^^^PID^^^1234567891

My approach is to iterate through PV1-9. If I see an “NPI” id type, then I’m subtracting my counter by one and inserting the npi number in f1-1.

In order to accomplish this, I must define 2 variables; however, I’m having quite a time doing this. What am I doing wrong?

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[Keith McLeod]

If you always want it to be f1-1 then your statement should be something like:

math sub {$%f1} =1 –> {$%f2}

Get rid of the math add statement.

Also your If statement is looking for PNPI.

You do not need to declare %f2 in your iterate, remove that as well.

[Elijah Park]

Thanks Keith. That did the trick. 🙂

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