public class HL7MessageConfiguration

Public Class HL7MessageConfiguration

public ref class HL7MessageConfiguration

In constructing a message certain special characters are used. They are the segment terminator, the field separator, the component separator, subcomponent separator, repetition separator, and escape character. The segment terminator is always a carriage return (in ASCII, a hex 0D).

The messages delimiter definitions occur in the MSH segment after the mandatory "MSH". A typical message will have:

• an MSH segment starting with "MSH|^~\&|" where the 4th character is the fieldSeparator value
• the 5th character if present, is the componentSeparator value
• the 6th character if present, is the repetitionSeparator value
• the 7th character if present, is the escapeCharacter value
• the 8th character if present, is the subcomponentSeparator value

System..::..Object
  Mergecom.HL7..::..HL7MessageConfiguration