Coverting carriage return in individual segments

[rutledj]

What is the proper way to replace \X0d0a\ with .br\ in javascript on a per segment basis?

If I put: this in the preprocessor, it works:

message = message.replace(/\\X0d0a\\/g, '\\.br\\');

But if I try this in a transformer it does not.

for each(seg in msg.children())
{
	seg = seg.toString().replace(/\\X0d0a\\/g, '\\.br\\');
	
}

[rjkroll]

If it works in the pre-processer, why not just use it there? Also, I believe the issue might be related to what type you are trying to do a replace on in the transformer step, which usually means either you are trying to do something on a Java string type that only works on Javascript string types, or vice versa. Try removing the .toString() in the transformer part to see if that works.

[rutledj]

Unfortunately, it causes problems with NTE segments in non-discrete micro results. There are no carriage returns after the individual NTE segments, so they all run together in the receiving system.

[jonbartels]

Would a regex like the attachment handler be useful?

(?:OBX\|(?:[^|]*?\|){4}(?:[^|^]*?\^){4})([^|^]*)[|^] from this article might be a good start. Since it has matching groups I think it is more complicated than you need.

I tried to write one but it does not work quite right. Can you fiddle with this example and share a revision?