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  • #51381
    Mark Perschbacher
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    I have a proc that I am using to extract some OBX 5 fields into a list, and then copy them back into a blank field with this result.

    OBX|2|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT|||SOURCE: {Endocervical Pap Smear}|||||F

    When I try to join it back into the message, I get an error about “list element followed by ||||F instead of space.”  I have tried removing the curly braces, but have not be successful.  Anybody know how to get rid of them?

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    • #69976
      Tom Rioux
      Participant

      Here is one way using string map:

      hcitcl>set var “SOURCE: {Endocervical Pap Smear}”

      SOURCE: {Endocervical Pap Smear}

      hcitcl>string map {{ {} } {}} $var

      SOURCE: Endocervical Pap Smear

      Hope this helps…

      Tom Rioux

    • #69977

      You could do something like …

      Code:

      regsub -all — {{}} $var “” var

      .

      -- Max Drown (Infor)

    • #69978
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      The string map line works as long as I run it through a variable.  Thanks for both of your input.

    • #69979
      Michael Hertel
      Participant

      This looks like you have an error in your proc.

      Does the raw data actually have curly braces as part of the data?

      If not, you have an element from a list instead of string of data.

      Are you sure you want to remove the braces instead of fixing the problem?

    • #69980
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Michael, that is what I am experimenting with.  I would like to use regexp to find the data in OBX 5, and then use lsearch to return the list postition number.

    • #69981
      Michael Hertel
      Participant

      If you’d like to post what you have so far, we could look at it for you.

    • #69982
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Michael, I was able to get the OBX 5 isolated earlier this week, but had a brainstorm and made some big changes without saving a copy, and am now getting an “list element in quotes followed by “.” ” error, but this is what I have so far.

      proc datadump { args } {

        keylget args MODE mode               ;# Fetch mode

       

        set dispList {}

        set signed_flag “”

       

        switch -exact — $mode {

            start {

                # Perform special init functions

                # N.B.: there may or may not be a MSGID key in args

            }

           

            run {

                # ‘run’ mode always has a MSGID; fetch and process it

                keylget args MSGID mh

                set msg [msgget $mh]

                set fieldSep [string index $msg 3]

                set segmentList [split $msg r]

       

                  set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

          #echo $obx

      set obxlist “”

               foreach segment in $obx {

          set field [lindex [split $segment $fieldSep] 5]

      lappend obxlist “$field”

      }

      echo $obxlist

      set find [lsearch $source {SOURCE:}]

      set list [lsearch $source {}]

    • #69983
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Forgot a line

      proc datadump { args } {

        keylget args MODE mode               ;# Fetch mode

       

        set dispList {}

        set signed_flag “”

       

        switch -exact — $mode {

            start {

                # Perform special init functions

                # N.B.: there may or may not be a MSGID key in args

            }

           

            run {

                # ‘run’ mode always has a MSGID; fetch and process it

                keylget args MSGID mh

                set msg [msgget $mh]

                set fieldSep [string index $msg 3]

                set segmentList [split $msg r]

       

                set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

          #echo $obx

      set obxlist “”

               foreach segment in $obx {

          set field [lindex [split $segment $fieldSep] 5]

      lappend obxlist “$field”

      }

      echo $obxlist

      set source $obxlist

      set find [lsearch $source {SOURCE:}]

      set list [lsearch $source {}]

    • #69984
      Michael Hertel
      Participant

      Try this:

      set segmentList [split $msg r]

       

      set obx [lsearch -regexp $segmentList ^OBX]

      foreach segment in $obx {

         set field [lindex [split $segment $fieldSep] 5]

         lappend obxlist “$field”

      }

      echo $obxlist

      set source $obxlist

      set find [lsearch -regexp $obxlist SOURCE:]

      #set find [lsearch $source {SOURCE:}]

      #set list [lsearch $source {}]

    • #69985
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Got it working, thanks.  Here is what $obxlist looks like.  So what I am trying to do is grab everything from SOURCE:  to the blank before FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:  I am thinking that some regexp expression might do it, but I can’t seem to get the sytntax right.  Any ideas?

      ****  GYNECOLOGICAL CYTOLOGY REPORT  *****

      CASE STATUS: Signed Out    

      PATIENT NAME:test, silly

      CASE NUMBER:  SC05-4

      DATE COLLECTED:4/28/2005

      SOURCE:

      Endocervical Pap Smear

      FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:

      NEGATIVE FOR INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION OR MALIGNANCY.

      Cytologically benign endocervical-type glandular cells present.

    • #69986
      Michael Hertel
      Participant

      Sorry, I’m not very good at regexp

    • #69987
      Charlie Bursell
      Participant

      Is this a list?  It is little wonder you are have problems with braces as that is the internal quoting.

      Let’s assume it is a list, if not omit the first step

      set obxstring [join $obxlist { }]

      set source “”     ;# just in case

      regexp — {.*(SOURCE:.*?)FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:}

                                                                $obxstring {} source

      # Get rid of lf

      set source [string trim $source]

      Unless I completely misunderstand the problem  ðŸ™‚

    • #69988
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      regexp — {.*(SOURCE:.*?)FINAL C…DIAGNOSIS:} $obxstring {} source

      Gives me an “extra characters after close brace” error, do I have the syntax right?

    • #69989
      Charlie Bursell
      Participant

      The backslash was a line contiuation.  You don’t need if all on one line

    • #69990
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Gotcha, the regexp is running but I am not getting anything returned.  If I wanted to have it grab everything from SOURCE: to the blank space before FINAL CYTO.., would I just put a “” after the .*?)  It is interesting that all the elements of obxstring are enclosed in {} except SOURCE:.  I added an lappend field “$obxlist” after the set obxlist [lindex [split $segment $fieldSep] 5] line to get the {}.

      {*****  GYNECOLOGICAL CYTOLOGY REPORT  *****}

      {}

      {CASE STATUS: Signed Out    }

      {PATIENT NAME:test, silly}

      {CASE NUMBER:  SC05-4}

      {}

      {DATE COLLECTED:4/28/2005}

      SOURCE:

      {Endocervical Pap Smear}

      {}

      {FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:}

    • #69991
      Charlie Bursell
      Participant

      That is because you have a list!  You must remove it from the list context to deal with it as a string!

    • #69992
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      To add a little more detail to Charlie’s answer.  “SUCCESS:” doesn’t need to be “grouped” because there are not embeded white space.  Since these are all list elements, each element has to be grouped if there is white space or else each word would become its own element.  Tcl (and the Engine) does this for you by sticking in curly braces as necessary.   In the case of SUCCESS: no grouping brackets are needed, but for the others with white space brackets are added to delineate (or group) the parts of one element together.

      I hope this helps

      Kevan Riley

      Sr. Integration Analyst

      Adventist Health System – IS

      Lake Mary, FL

    • #69993
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      What command would you use to group the elements together as a string?

    • #69994
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      I usually “delist” with lindex, and there is a “list” command to form a list.

      e.g.

      set a [list “CASE STATUS: Signed Out” “PATIENT NAME:test, silly” “CASE NUMBER:

    • #69995
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Yes, thanks.  So according to Charlie, if I group the list as a string, the regexp should work.   I am interpreting Charlie’s script correctly, it is grabbing everything from SOURCE: to the end of DIAGNOSIS.  Would carriage returns be preventing it from returning the requested characters?

    • #69996
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      Right, looking back over what Charlie wrote, I realized i missed the “join” (set obxstring [join $obxlist { }]).  Join “de-lists” a list into a string.  That is, it un-groups all of the elements, joining them with, in this case, a space.  So your end result from Charlie’s join is a string that is no longer grouped into list elements.  

      One test, is to echo out an llength or your list (puts [llength $obxlist]) and see if the number matches the number of elements you think you should have.  If you think you have 5 subfields in a list, and llength yields something like 9 or 1, then you want to echo out your “list” and see what is going on.  Either, the subfields are not grouped, in which case every space deliniates a new list element even if it is just a two word description, or it has been “over grouped, and is a list of one element, that possibly contains a list (think {{pt one} {pt two}}).

      One more thing to keep in mind.  Technically speaking a list is just a specially formatted string.  You can use the list commands like lindex, list, lappend, etc. and I recommend that, but you can also treat a list as a string, but it is more complicated because, you then, are the one that has to be sure to account for and deal with existence or need for curly braces.

      For instance, you can set a return disposition list for a Tcl UPoc proc like this:

      set displist “”

      lappend dispList “CONTINUE $mh”

      return $displist

      or

      set displist “{CONTINUE $mh}”

      return $displist

      or even

       return “{CONTINUE $mh}”

      The first form is preferred since it allows the native commands to handle the curly braces for you (it is also good Cloverleaf programing practice, since the displist could contain more that one disposition).

      Another example:

      You could get the first element of a list by something like this:

      set a

        puts $a

        -> {pt one} {pt two}

        set i1 [expr [string first “{” $a] +1]

        set i2 [expr [string first “}” $a] -1]

        set b [string range $a $i1 $i2]

        puts $b

        -> pt one

        or you could just do:

        set b [lindex $a 0]

        puts $b

        -> pt one

        hope this helps.

        PS.  I tested Charlies code against teh list you posted in the in initial post and I got “SOURCE: Endocervical Pap Smear” out.

    • #69997
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Thanks again for your input.  The llength command is useful.  When I run the lappend, and check the llength of obxlist, I get a list of subfields with a value of 1.  If I run a regexp -inline of obxlist, it returns both SOURCE: and FINAL CYTO…   Charlie’s regexp script still returns nothing.

    • #69998
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      You probably want to use “append” not “lappend”.  Try that.

    • #69999
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Append seems to have the same effect as not running lappend.  The subfields have variable llength values, and the regexp -inline returns nothing for FINAL CYTO…

    • #70000
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      Perhaps you should repost your code.  I am not sure I am following along.  Are you doing the “join”?  I don’t think you want any of this in a list at all.  I think you want to join it all in to one long string.  At that point your “regexp” will work.  Try echoing out your variable you are trying to “regexp” against.  If there are still curly braces in there, they it hasn’t been joined correctly.

    • #70001
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      proc datadump { args } {

        keylget args MODE mode               ;# Fetch mode

       

        set dispList {}

        set signed_flag “”

       

        switch -exact — $mode {

            start {

                # Perform special init functions

                # N.B.: there may or may not be a MSGID key in args

            }

           

            run {

                # ‘run’ mode always has a MSGID; fetch and process it

                keylget args MSGID mh

                set msg [msgget $mh]

                set fieldSep [string index $msg 3]

                set segmentList [split $msg r]

       

                 set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

       

      foreach segment $obx {

      set obxlist “”

          set field [lindex [split $segment $fieldSep] 5]

      string trim $field

      append obxlist “$field”

            set obxstring [join $obxlist {}]

      set trim “”

      set finder [lsearch -inline -regexp $obxlist {FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:}]  

      set length [llength $obxlist]

      set site [lsearch $field {SOURCE:}]

      regexp — {.*(SOURCE:.*?)FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:} $obxlist {} trim

      echo $finder

      }

      Kevan, here is the business end of the proc.  I have substituted some of the variable fields for testing.  I agree with your assesment of needing to get the data formatted as a string.  I am running this through the Testing Tool, and can provide the test file if you want.

    • #70002

      What exactly are you trying to do with the message?

      (I’ve tried to read through the thread, but it’s confusing)

      And could you please post an entire sample inbound message?

      -- Max Drown (Infor)

    • #70003
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Max, what I am trying to do is read through all the OBX  5 values, and pull out everyting from SOURCE: to the blank line above FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:

      OBX|1|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||*****  GYNECOLOGICAL CYTOLOGY REPORT  *****||||||F

      OBX|2|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||||||||F

      OBX|3|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||CASE STATUS: Signed Out    ||||||F

      OBX|4|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||PATIENT NAME:test, silly||||||F

      OBX|5|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||CASE NUMBER:  SC05-4||||||F

      OBX|6|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||||||||F

      OBX|7|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||DATE COLLECTED:4/28/2005||||||F

      OBX|8|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||SOURCE:||||||F

      OBX|9|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||Endocervical Pap Smear||||||F

      OBX|10|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||||||||F

      OBX|11|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:||||||F

      OBX|12|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||NEGATIVE FOR INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION OR MALIGNANCY.||||||F

      OBX|13|TX|SC05-4$rpt^^99DHT||Cytologically benign endocervical-type glandular

    • #70004

      I set up a little test environment using a file called tmp.tcl. After making changes to the code, I run the code from the command line by typing “tcl tmp.tcl”. The output is printed to the screen.

      Test messge (^M == carriage rerturn just like in normal HL7):

      Code:

      set msg “MSH|^MOBX|1|2|3|4|SOURCE: test1 FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:^MOBX|1|2|3|4|SOURCE: test2 FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:^MOBX|1|2|3|4|SOURCE: test3 FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:^MOBX|1|2|3|4|SOURCE: test4 FINAL CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS:^M

      Script:

      Code:

      set fieldSep [string index $msg 3]
      set segmentList [split $msg r]
      set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

      foreach segment $obx {
         set field [lindex [split $segment $fieldSep] 5]
         set resultList [regexp -inline -all — {SOURCE: (.*?) FINAL} $field]
         puts [lindex $resultList 1]
      }

      Result:

      Code:

      test1
      test2
      test3
      test4

      -- Max Drown (Infor)

    • #70005
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      Mark,

      I see two errors in the code you posted…

       

      1) your  ‘set obxlist “”‘ statement needs to be moved out of your foreach loop.

      2)  You string trim is missing its set, it should be ‘set field [string trim  $field]’

    • #70006
      Kevan Riley
      Participant

      Here is my recommendation:

      set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

    • #70007

      Here’s some sample code based on your message (demonstrating regexp inline switch).

      set fieldSep [string index $msg 3]
      set segmentList [split $msg r]
      set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

      foreach segment $obx {
      [code]set fieldSep [string index $msg 3]
      set segmentList [split $msg r]
      set obx [lrange [lregexp $segmentList {^OBX}] 0 end]

      foreach segment $obx {

      -- Max Drown (Infor)

    • #70008
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Max, with the set obx5list moved out of the foreach, all I get for $obx5list is the last  OBX  5 of the message appended on.

    • #70009
      Mark Perschbacher
      Participant

      Kevan, your’s worked.  Yahoo!  Can’t thank all those who directed their massive brain power on this, and I promise to never create a thread this long again.

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