There is a typo in the example driver program that is bundled with the Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.6. The program extract_domaindata_all.sas line 153 is
if missing(_cstOutputName) then _cstOutputName=cats(compress(Name, 'adk'));
If _cstOutputName is missing (ie. the SASDataset attribute is not set in the source xml file), then the _cstOutputName should be set to the value of the Name variable - containing only ascii and digits, so compress statement should be compress(Name, , 'adk').
In short, change line 152 in extract_domaindata_all.sas to:
if missing(_cstOutputName) then _cstOutputName=cats(compress(Name, ,'adk'));
Thanks,
Stuart.
Hi Stuart,
I'm one of the lead developers of CST.
Thanks for reporting this typo! The idea was to only keep letters and digits, but the result is that the characters 'a', 'd' and 'k' are removed! Your fix is correct.
We will include corrected code in the upcoming hotfixes for CST 1.6 and 1.7. There will be a Technical Support note to cover CST 1.5.
@ChrisHemedinger Thanks for forwarding.
Regards,
Lex
Thanks for the report. I'll make sure this is forwarded to the development team.
Chris
Hi Stuart,
I'm one of the lead developers of CST.
Thanks for reporting this typo! The idea was to only keep letters and digits, but the result is that the characters 'a', 'd' and 'k' are removed! Your fix is correct.
We will include corrected code in the upcoming hotfixes for CST 1.6 and 1.7. There will be a Technical Support note to cover CST 1.5.
@ChrisHemedinger Thanks for forwarding.
Regards,
Lex
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