RE: [HAPI-devel] linefeeds and \.br\

[Tripp, B. <Bry...@uh...>]

Hi Alan, 

That sounds like the thing to do.  I can't think of a reason against, so if
nobody else speaks up I'll make this change in HEAD as well.  

Bryan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shields [mailto:ala...@bt...]
> Sent: July 27, 2004 7:14 AM
> To: hl7...@li...
> Subject: [HAPI-devel] linefeeds and \.br\
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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