delimiters component defines the following hierarchy of delimiters for parsing HL7 messages:
newline
vertical bar (|)
caret (^) or tab
You can add additional delimiters or edit the predefined hierarchy. The procedure is the same as for the
DelimiterHierarchy
component.
The HL7 messaging standard permits a message to define its own delimiters. You can parse the delimiter declaration of an HL7 message and create a dynamic delimiter definition in the following way:
Use
Content
anchors to retrieve the delimiter characters from the HL7 message header. Store the characters in variables.