Operator's Manual

Appendix • A
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The barcode mask can be preceded by optional square
brackets containing the separator characters - [nC
1
mC
2
]
- to extract the ID from any position within the barcode.
The ID to be extracted must start after the n
th
occurrence
of the starting character C
1
and must end after the m
th
occurrence of the ending character C
2
. The extracted
string of characters will be processed by the succeeding
mask (see page 206) to identify the patient ID.
C
1
and C
2
can be represented by any readable charac-
ters, or by any hexadecimal ASCII values if marked by a
preceding backslash (“\”). See the table of ASCII charac-
ters on page 208.
Example 1:
[1$1+]^+^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
Extract the ID betw
een first occurrence of “$” and first
occurrence of “+”. The ID must start with one alpha
character (A
-Z/a-z), followed by seven numbers (0-9).
This mask will extract the ID X1234567 from the following
barcode example:
~Jane Doe%$X1234567+5715486266Z?01-09-1979
Example 2:
[3\3b1\3b]^+^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
Extract the ID betw
een 3
rd
and 4
th
semicolon (; = 0x3b).
This mask will extract the ID X1234321 from the following
barcode example:
;Mary Miller;;X1234321;5715486266Z;01-09-1982