Special Character in IF Condition

[Gregg Price]

I want an IF statement to test on a field with the special character *

Example:

*XR ABDOMEN  SUPINE

The IF Condition of

1(0).OBR(0).#4(0).[1] eq =*XR ABDOMEN  SUPINE

generates the error

[0:TEST] IF expression parse failed: Unrecognizable lexical token

Error occurred at: ‘*XR ABDOMEN  SUPINE’

[0:TEST] Unable to compile XLT ‘suburban_epic_orm_o01.xlt’.

I’ve tried adding the in front of the *, but that didn’t work.

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[James Cobane]

Gregg,

Try copying the literal  to a temp variable, then use the temp variable in your IF statement; i.e.

COPY =*XR ABDOMEN  SUPINE —> @mytemp

IF 1(0).OBR(0).#4(0).[1] eq @mytemp

Hope this helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Gregg Price]

You were very close.  I didn’t need the in the copy command.

COPY =*XR ABDOMEN  SUPINE —> @mytemp

Copying the value to a variable and then testing the field against the variable did work.

Thanks!

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