Roche/Hitachi cobas c 311 analyzer Record structure
Syntax
Roche Diagnostics May 2011
Host Interface Manual – Version 1.3 E-6
The table below describes attributes of each field in each
record shown in chapter 5.
No Name of Attributes Description
1 Order (No.) Sequence of the field. Sequence of the fields in record.
2 Name of Field (Field) Name of relevant field.
Typing characters for the fields are any of the following.
ST Character string.
TX Character string group that end is printable.
NM Numeric value. ‘+‘ or ‘-‘ is attached at the top. If not, the value is deemed
to be
’+.‘ When without decimal point, the value is deemed to be integer. Prefix
attached to ’0,’ and suffix attached to ‘0’ of numeric value with decimal
point can be anything.
DT Date. Four digits of dominical year. YYYYMMDD (YYYY: dominical year,
MM: month, DD: day) Ex. September 5, 1995 is displayed as “19950905.”
TM Set time in 24 hours. HHMMSS (HH: hour, MM: minute, SS: second)
TS Time stamp. Display DT and TM together such as
“YYYMMDDHHMMSS.”
3 Type (Type)
CM Field of combined multiple data by component section separator
character.
4 Maximum length (Max) Maximum number of effective characters except escape characters in the
relevant field.