Supressing Leading Numbers in PID 3

[Victor Ligenza]

I have an issue that I was attempting to take care of in an .xlt.  The issue is my Mysis lab system prefixes the facility code to the MR number in the PID 3 field.  What I get is a value of 50999999999.  The 50 being the facility and the 999999999 being a 9 digit MR#, leading zeros are included in the MRN#.  My first thought was to subtract 50000000000 from the PID 3 and place only the resulting MR# in the outbound data.  I dicovered that a @variable in the translation configuration can only by nine digits long.  If I had to write a tcl proc would I have the same limitations.  I have next to no tcl experience so I wanted to know if this would be a problem before I began.

Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions.

Victor Ligenza

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[Charlie Bursell]

Put this fragment in with your COPY statement

set xlateOutVals

2 end]]

[Victor Ligenza]

Thank you Charlie!!!!!

I see in your author description you are a clovertech teacher.  Can you recommend an education path to bring someone up to speed on tcl.

[Charlie Bursell]

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4th Edition

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Charlie

[Dave Loricchio]

Hi,

I’ve tried putting this fragment with the COPY statement, in the input/output pre-tcl box.  

set xlateOutVals

2 end]]

The code is not stripping off the first two digits of the patient ID.  Do you have any ideas about what I can do?  I know very little about tcl.

Thanks,

Dave

[Kevin Kinnell]

Well, the code should strip the first two characters off of any string, so there must be something going on with your xlate.

Not saving the xlate before I run another test on it is the usual culprit for me. 🙄

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