Need to send double quotes in a segment

[Vinita Dutta]

I have to add a new segment and has to have the following values:

PR1|1|I9|””|||”. I have tried different things but it always shows up as “” and I need “”.

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

This can be done in an xlate or in a post-proc (tcl). The “” (active null) has special meaning in the HL7 standard. It means the receiving application should delete/remove/blank out the current value.

In the xlate, use @active_null.

COPY

   Source: @active_null

   Destination: whichever field

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Vinita Dutta]

xlate it works fine but I want to do this in a tcl proc..

[Robert Milfajt]

I am not sure how you are building up your segment, but running this straight from tcl I have no problems:

Code:

$ hcitcl
hcitcl>set seg [list “PR1” “1” “I9” “””” “” “” “”]
PR1 1 I9 {””} {} {} {}
hcitcl>set seg [join $seg “|”]
PR1|1|I9|””|||
hcitcl>echo $seg
PR1|1|I9|””|||
hcitcl>

Hope this helps,

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

[Vinita Dutta]

Thanks for all the recommendations – I was using the testing tool and it showed PR1|1|I9|””|. I sent a message though the thread and the double quotes were displaying correctly so is this a bug with the testing tool or??

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