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Stripping a Dash - MEDITECH String Manipulation

Posted by John Sharpe on Fri, May 15, 2009 @ 11:01 AM
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You've added the dashes '-' to a field; but what about removing them?

To remove the dashes from a MEDITECH field (social security number, or phone number), you can use tokens and the NOT operator like this:

"123-45-6789"^/SSN,
/SSN'#1A'#1A^/SSN
Result: /SSN = 123456789

OR

/SSN'#1A^/SSN
Result: /SSN = 12345-6789

/SSN'#1A^/SSN
Result: /SSN = 123456789

OR

DO{/SSN#L(/SSN,"-") /SSN'#1A^/SSN}
Result: /SSN = 123456789


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