ASTMViewer

Small C# WinForms test program that parses ASTM E1394 (LIS2-A2) record text and shows the records as a tree.

Status: older project (2014), not maintained. Written as a first exercise in C#; error handling is mostly TODO.

What it does

Paste ASTM record text into the text box on the right and press Parse. The text is split into records by line breaks and into fields by |. Components (^), repeats (\) and escape sequences are not split; E1381 framing (STX/ETX, checksums) is not handled, so the input must be plain record lines.

Recognised record types and the tree they build:

• H starts a message, L ends it
• P patient, O order (under the last patient), R result (under the last order)
• Q request
• C comment and M manufacturer record, attached to the preceding record

Other record types are ignored. A class for S (scientific) records exists, but the parser does not create it.

Files

ASTMParser.cs            parser and record classes (namespace ASTMParser)
ASTMParserGUI.cs         form: text box, Parse button, tree view
Form1.Designer.cs        designer code for ASTMParserGUI
Program.cs               entry point
ASTMParser.sc.cs         earlier version of the parser inside a form; not part of the build
exe/                     prebuilt WindowsFormsApplication2.exe

Build

Visual Studio project targeting .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile. Open ASTMViewer.sln in Visual Studio, or:

msbuild ASTMViewer.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x86

The output is WindowsFormsApplication2.exe.

License

MIT, (c) 2014 Valentin Heinitz