Creating Segments with repetition data

[Lifeformwp]

Hello, first of all, thanks for a great library!
I have a question regarding Segment Field Repetition. Is it possible to create hl7 messages using your library with a repetition in some fields? Like this:

$contactData = [
    [
        0 => 'some phone number',
        1 => 'PH',
        2 => 'type_phone',
    ],
    [
        0 => 'some mobile phone',
        1 => 'PH',
        2 => 'type_mobile',
    ],
    [
        0 => 'email',
        1 => 'PH',
        2 => 'type_email',
    ],
]
$segmentPID->setPhoneNumberHome($contactData);

So, in the end, when I'm building a message, I would get this string:

PID|||||||||||||some phone number^PH^type_phone~some mobile phone^PH^type_mobile~email^PH^type_email

Is it possible? Thanks in advance for the answer

[senaranya]

Hi,

If you're using the HL7 class to build the object, try the method doNotSplitRepetition(), i.e.

HL7::from(<HL7 string>)
    ->doNotSplitRepetition()
    ...

If you're using the Message class, try the 6th parameter doNotSplitRepetition in the constructor. Search for this parameter in the documentation.

[jay-knight]

The doNotSplitRepetition parameter isn't considered when writing the message to a string ($message->toString()), just when parsing an hl7 message. For this to work correctly, segmentToString() would need to know if nested arrays represent repetition or sub components.