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Welcome to iNTERFACEWARE’s code repository – a place to find and share official and community-submitted code. Our goal is to provide useful and commonly used interfaces, modules, code snippets, and to encourage the members of our community to learn, share and help each other with their projects.

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Process a batch of HL7 messages

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How to process a batch of HL7 messages by removing the batch header and splitting it into separate messages.

Query a database

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Code Snippets

Use conn:query() to select data from a table in a database

Query Response ACK

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Query a database to identify patient in incoming HL7 messages. If a patient is not found return an ACK with a "Patient does not exist" message.

Raise an error

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Use the error() function to raise an error and write it to the logs

Read an empty XML TEXT element

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Demonstrates the best way to read an empty XML TEXT element, by using the text(' ') function from the xml.lua module

Read and process a list of file names

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Use os.fs.glob() to return to process a list of filenames and statistics matching a specified pattern

Read from a file

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How to open and read a file from disk, either one line at a time, or read the whole file at once

Remove duplicate words with PCRE regex

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How to remove duplicate words from a string, using PCRE regex with string.rxsub()

Rename a file or directory

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Use os.fs.rename() to rename a file or directory, if the file or directory does not exist an error is returned

Replace text in a string

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Code Snippets

Use string.gsub() to find and replace one or more instances of text within a string

resubmit.lua

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Modules

Resubmit a logged message to an Iguana channel using the unique reference number (refmsgid).

Retry a Custom ACK

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Code Samples

Retries a a custom ACK using the retry.lua module

retry.lua

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Modules

A module for retrying operations which might periodically fail like database operations.

rtf.lua

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Modules

A module for converting a RTF file to plain text.

Run a command line process

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Code Snippets

Execute programs and batch files, you can also load results from a directory listing etc.

Sanity check EDI data

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Code Samples

This code checks EDI (XML) data for some common errors, you can use this approach for pre-processing messages to clean them up

scheduler.lua

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Modules

Schedule jobs to run at a specified time of day, very useful for batch processing

scrub.lua

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Modules

The “scrub” module given below redacts sensitive information from HL7 messages.

Send an Email from Lua

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Code Samples

Use smtp.send() to send an email from your Lua code.

Set an XML node to a space " " character

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Demonstrates the best way to set a XML node to a space character, by using setText(' ') from the xml.lua module