[Rich]

Hi Jim!

I should have known that you and that gorgeous car would show up!  I’m using version 20.1, and MSH.7 is formatted 20221209091927 – Year/month/day/time.  Thank you so much for your time!

[Rich]

Yes, it’s an outbound thread with protocol:file.  I’d like to put date/time in the file being created.

[Rich]

Thank you all for your input, I truly appreciate it!  My final solution, after thinking it through, was to put the values in a table, and kill or send based on the values being present in the table.  This allows room for growth as well.

[Rich]

My goal here is to send only clinic screening, and clinic ultrasound, suppressing all other messages.

[Rich]

Thank you, Paul, that’ll work!

[Rich]

That was perfect, thank you!

[Rich]

First and foremost, A HUGE thank you to Jim Kosloskey for the screen sharing session to point out where I went wrong, and taking the time to make sure I understood the groove he was laying down!

The best thing I learned yesterday was that understanding your data completely will reduce mistakes (and frustration).

Solution: I didn’t realize that my schema was double nested.  Instead of

1(0).1(0).3(0).0(%g1).OBX(0).#3(0).[4]

I needed

1(0).1(%g2).3(0).0(%g1).OBX(0).#3(0).[4]

HL7 Editor is your friend, know your data!

[Rich]

Thanks, Jim, email incoming…

[Rich]

I stated that wrong.  I’m coping OBX.3.1 to OBX.3.4

[Rich]

That worked perfectly, thank you!

[Rich]

I’ve never used TCL translate, but that looks like a good solution.  How do I get the PID.3.1 value into the code, then into the PID segment again?

[Rich]

Thanks all, I appreciate the input!

[Rich]

Another question might be, can I pull the first digit directly out of 0(0).PID(0).#18(0)  by adding (0)(0) ?

[Rich]

Thanks Rob!  Is there a way to use a numeric variable?  My problem is that Cloverleaf 6.0 won’t let me do a substring search of PID.18.  I’m guessing because it’s numeric.

[Rich]

If I

copy 0(0).PID(0).#13(0).[5] to @AC

then copy 0(0).PID(0).#13(0).[6] to @AD then

Concat: =(
@AC
=)
@AD

I get (601)551XXXX – redacted number

so I know the segment is correct.  However, as soon as I try to

xlateStrSubstring 0 2 with an input of @AD and output to @AE it fails.

All I can conclude is that we have a failure trying to substring a numeric value.  I even tried putting @null in both @AE and @AF to make sure it had a value.  The message still fails to send.  Unfortunately, my testing tool is acting up and I’m unable to echo out values.

Thoughts?

[Author]

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