| MaurĂcio Ritter 2006-02-28, 7:49 am |
| Hi Kludell,
Have you tried to create two types of records, one with the optional
segments and one withour it ? You can use a tag identifier to locate them if
its possible.
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MaurĂ_cio Ritter
http://www.dotnetmaniacs.com.br
"Klundell" wrote:
> I have a flat file schema I am using to parse a message. The message has from
> 6 to 10 segments or lines in any give message. When some of the segments or
> lines are not there the schema is not parsing correctly It will move the
> segments or lines up in the Schema. For example give the following message
> where each line is seperated by a carriage return -
> MSH|data|data|data|data|data|data
> EVN|data|data|data|data|data|data
> PID|data|data|data|data|data|data
> PV1|data|data|data|data|data|data
> DG1|data|data|data|data|data|data (Optional segment)
> IN1|data|data|data|data|data|data (Optional segment)
>
> If the DG1 segment is not in the message but the IN1 segment is the parser
> will move the In1 segment up to the DG1 space in the schema rather that
> leaving the DG1 empty and keeping the In1 segment in the IN1 slot.
> I have tried putting a tag on the properties for the segments but that does
> not help.
>
> The schema is too big to include but I can E-Mail if needed.The last 6
> segments are optional and may not be in the message. How do I get the schema
> to parse correctly when optional segments are missing ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Kris.
>
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