Handling Trailing Delimiters in HL7 Messages
- by Thomas Canter
Applies to: BizTalk Server 2006 with the HL7 1.3 Accelerator
Outline of the problem
Trailing Delimiters are empty values at the end of an object in a HL7 ER7 formatted message.
Examples:
Empty Field
NTE|P|
NTE|P||
Empty component
ORC|1|725^
Empty Subcomponent
ORC|1|||||27&
Empty repeat
OBR|1||||||||027~
Trailing delimiters indicate the…