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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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scrub.lua

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Modules

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

throttle.lua

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Modules

Throttle a process during peak hours, by slowing down the code.

Normalize X12 delimiters

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Code Samples

How to normalize X12 delimiters for processing in Iguana scripts, they can be reverted after processing if needed

Read an empty XML TEXT element

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Code Samples

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

Read from a file

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Code Snippets

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

Update a database

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Code Snippets

Use conn:execute() to update a database table

Set file permissions

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Code Snippets

Use os.fs.chmod() to set file permissions, using octal mode (symbolic mode does not work)

Get a child node by name

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Code Snippets

Use node.child() to return the node of the specified name, works for all node types

Create a bzip2 or gzip file

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Code Snippets

How to create and unzip a bzip2 or gzip file, using filter.bzip2.deflate() and filter.bzip2.inflate() or gzip.deflate() and gzip.inflate()

Using a DB with an autoincrementing ID

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Code Samples

How to handle inserts and updates for a table using an autoincrementing ID

Call a DB stored procedure

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Code Samples

Demonstrates the use of conn:execute{} to call a stored procedure.

demo.vmd

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VMDs

The demo.vmd file used in many of our documentation examples

X12 parsing

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Code Samples

This code is a template for X12 parsing

Mapping messages

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Code Samples

How to map all or part of an HL7 message (similar principles apply to other message types)

Conversion to string or number

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Code Snippets

How to convert numbers and node trees to a to string representation, and how to convert a numeric strings to numbers

Merge into a database

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Code Snippets

Use conn:merge{} to merge data into a database

Delete a file or directory

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Code Snippets

Use os.remove() to delete a file or directory, only an empty directory can be deleted

Count child nodes

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Code Snippets

Use node.childCount() to count the number of children for a specified node, works for all node types

Using hex encoding

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Code Snippets

How to encode and decode strings with hex, using filter.hex.enc() and filter.hex.dec()

Dehydrate (serialize) as JSON

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Code Samples

How to dehydrate (serialize) raw JSON data, this can be useful for storing in a databases