On 04/10/16 20:14, PERRAS Pierre wrote: > Hi, > > Sending lab result in HL7.
You need to give us much more information. Do not assume we know what HL7 is, I certainly don't. Also this is a text list and attachments are usually stripped off, so if you sent something it didn't get through. > In the following example, I want everything (^^^^PATNUMBER~000925015-001) I assume the bit in parens is the "example"? > after 000925015 in PID3-1. But I have no idea what PID3-1 means Also is the 000925015 a fixed value or is there a more general pattern involved? If its fixed then extracting your data is easy but if its a pattern then we might need to use a regex. Also what version of Python are you using? And which OS? But you need to explain more clearly what you are trying to do, what the input and output data looks like and how you are approaching it, plus any errors you get. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor