[MEDITECH-L] Magic NPR Strip Specific Characters from Field

[Barb Stump]

By any chance does anyone know if there is a standard routine that can be used to search a field in an NPR report for a specific set of characters in order to strip them out no matter what position they are located in the field? In my case I want to strip out "PRN " from job descriptions before printing, but it isn't always located at the beginning of the field.

Thanks.

Barb Stump
Applications Analyst III
Lima Memorial Health System
p: 419-998-4441
f: 419-998-4725
www.limamemorial.org<http://www.limamemorial.org>

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[Joe Cocuzzo]

No built in function like InStr() as in certain modern programming languages, but you can combine L() locate and the $ (left) and % (right) string operators and _ (concatinate) to do what you want as follows:

This strips the string, however it does not test to see if PRN is a separate word, so if you have a job description of PRNOGNOSTICATOR, it will turn into OGNOSTICATOR

DO{L(STRING,"PRN")^p<L(STRING) STRING$p_(STRING%(p+2))^STRING}

If you want to make sure you only strip "<space>PRN" you could do that like this:

DO{L(STRING," PRN")^p<L(STRING) STRING$p_(STRING%(p+3))^STRING}

Joe Cocuzzo
Vice President
NPR Services
Iatric Systems, Inc.
Phone/Fax: (978) 805-4115
Email: mailto:Joe.C...@iatric.com
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Iatric Systems is a leading provider of integrated software applications, interfaces and reporting solutions for hospitals and healthcare systems.
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[Purvins, James A.]

There is a Magic token extractor of the form <string>#"nA".

I used this mostly for getting the facility for a given database : ie
@.db#1.

You can substitute the <n> with a variable to extract the token as
follows:

<string>#(n_"A")

Some pseudo code to check for the token PRN may be something as follows:

"blah blah blah PRN blah blah blah"^c.string.to.check,
0-1^n,
DO{n+1^n,c.string.to.check#(n_"A")^c.token IF{c.token="PRN"
@REMOVE.TOKEN.FROM.STRING}}

@REMOVE.TOKEN.FROM.STRING

I do not have code available to get the actual token removed from the
string but you get the overall picture.

James Purvins
Inland Northwest Health Services
(509) 232-8384

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