question on fleld level iteration in an xlt

[John Bonnie]

Hello all,

I have a slightly unusual value in obx-5 in an mdm message coming in from a pacs system.  Obx-5 contains the actual text of the rad report.  Each line of the text is separated by a tilde (~) character.

As an example obx-5 looks like this:  line1~line2~line3

I’m trying to iterate on these lines and stuff each line in a separate obx seg in the outbound structure.

The iterate type is set to “field”, the iterate basis is set to  3(0).0(0).OBX(0).#5  and the loop variable is set to %m1.

Upon execution it grabs the line 1 but will not iterate on the successive lines.  I’m wondering if this is due to the fact that the normal subfield indicator ^  is not being used in this case but a tilde is used instead.

Any ideas or help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

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[Jim Kosloskey]

John,

Change your loop variable to %f1

The allowed values are %f (for field), %g (for group), %s (for segment), and %l (for list).

See if that doesn’t help.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[John Bonnie]

it worked, thanks.

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