NPR Syntax Workarounds

The NPR report writer was written to protect us from damaging the MEDITECH HCIS. Unless you are a very experienced programmer, do not attempt to workaround the syntax checker. The MEDITECH languages (CS & Magic) are very powerful; meaning, it takes very little code to do a lot (good or bad). If you make a mistake it could cost you your career as a MEDITECH NPR Report Writer / Programmer.

Question: How do you perform a KILL in NPR Report Writer?
Answer: You can do a kill, but you shouldn't this is just too dangerous.
Workaround: ""^Q,DO{>/ECT[Q]^Q ""^/ECT[Q]}

Question: How do you seg in the report writer?
Workaround: $["SEGS"]("A","LIVE.MIS")

Question: How do you open prefixes in the NPR report writer?
Workaround:
;If the prefix is open like / is, stack it using the S.
;When you are done with the / prefix, unstack using the U.
@OPEN(/S,"P"),
@CLOSE(/U)

OPEN
O

CLOSE
C

Source: K@SETUP.TEMP.U,M([B],[U])
Object: K([U]),M([B],[U])}

V@HL.PRINT.LINE

HL.PRINT.LINE
(@hl.print.line)