Variable Length OBX 5

[Paul Johnston]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how I might be able to break a variable length OBX 5 field (from PACS TALK dictation ) into separate 72 length OBX segments

OR

break when ever a \.br\ set of characters is encountered.

Paul

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[Tom Rioux]

Paul,

Try using a pre-tcl with regsub to turn the breaks into tildes (see example below).  Then that will allow you iterate the OBX-5 subfields and split it out into multiple OBX’s.   Let me know if you have any questions.

Tom Rioux

Memorial Hermann Hospital

Example:

hcitcl>set a tom\.br.\rioux

hcitcl>regsub

Error: wrong # args: should be “regsub ?switches? exp string subSpec varName”

hcitcl>regsub -all {\.br.\} $a ~ b

1

hcitcl>echo $b

tom~rioux

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