"Spencer Parker" <inthefri...@gmail.com> wrote
MSH|~^\&|SCW|SMED|COR||20100305123742||ORU^R01|100305123742891|P|2.2|||||||PID|||001109660||TEST^Man||19920519|M||||||||||00055254593|699-63-1152|||||||||||
What I want to do is where it says, PID, is add a line break right before
that to knock it down to a new line.
I may be missing something here but won't string.replace() do
what you want?
ie
h7string =
MSH|~^\&|SCW|SMED|COR||20100305123742||ORU^R01|100305123742891|P|2.2|||||||PID|||001109660||TEST^Man||19920519|M||||||||||00055254593|699-63-1152|||||||||||
h7string = h7string.replace('PID', '\nPID')
I currently have a dictionary that contains all of the segments
Not sure what you use as the key but remember that dictionaries
don't guarantee order so joining it all together again might be tricky.
wondering what the best way to approach this is. I thought about a
regular
expression...but...I don't think that is the best way.
It might be but only if the replacement is much more complex than you
suggest.
I was thinking of using a 'for i in segments' statement to run through
the
dictionary of items.
If you need multiple changes you might need that but I suspect a simple
replace() will do. Even for multiple places, if it's only to add a \n then
use a re.sub() to do it all in one call.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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