[HAPI-devel] linefeeds and \.br\

[Alan S. <ala...@bt...>]

Hi all,
After years of splitting my report text over several OBX messages 
somebody just asked me to send a single obx with \.br\ to signify 
linefeeds.

At first I thought of replacing the linefeeds with \.br\ in my code, 
unfortunately HAPI escapes the \ to give me, \E\.br\E\.

In the end I added the following line to ca/uhn/hl7v2/parser/Escape.java
seqs.put("\\.br\\", String.valueOf('\n'));

which works a treat for my outgoing messages, though I haven't tried it 
to see what happens if somebody sends me a \.br\

Is this a reasonable approach?
Is it possible for me to indicate to HAPI that I want to insert an 
escape sequence?
Is there any reason anybody would NOT want HAPI to simply replace 
linefeeds with \.br\ ?

Cheers
Alan Shields