Replacing + in name

[jhussey]

Our registration adds a + symbol to the name in order designate the patient as confidential. Normally they add a space then + and the regex has no issues removing it. But when they don't add a space like SMITH+ it doesn't pick it up I've tried different javascript and the regular expression in the transformer but I can't seem to get it remove the +. The regular expression I have is [&\/\\#+^()$~%\\^\\'":?*@^<>{}()]. Any help would much appreciated.

[pacmano]

var myField = msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'].toString();
myField = myField.replace(/[\s\+]*$/, '');
msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'] = myField;​ 

that will handle extra spaces before or after the plus sign also.

[jhussey]

Worked great, thank you.
final code
var mapping;
var MIDDLE = msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'].toString();
MIDDLE = MIDDLE.replace(/[\s\+]*$/, '');
mapping = msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'] = MIDDLE;
channelMap.put('MIDDLE', validate(mapping, '', new Array()));

[pacmano]

That can just be with one liners like below if you are just trying to put it in the channelMap and/or assign it back to msg.

$c('middle',msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'].toString().replace(/[\s\+]*$/, ''))
msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'] = msg['PID']['PID.5']['PID.5.1'].toString().replace(/[\s\+]*$/, '') 

Looks like you are viewing the generated script from a mapper step. That generated script, while it works, isn't really what you would code yourself.

[jhussey]

Thanks pacmano, I realized after I posted that I could apply your solution to the source, which makes way more sense then changing each channel. Appreciate your help on this.