[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed 1.4.x … Parsing temp lates for placeholders lacking double internal delimitin g :: ::

[Busser, Jim]

As previously warned (and which just bit me), GNUmed 1.4x now requires each 
placeholder to contain two sets of double-colon delimiters

        ::    ::

inside $<   foo   >$ whether

        foo ::::

or else

        field1 :: field2 :: (optional field3)


and so, on the possibility that the following (however imperfect) could be 
helpful to anyone who gets similarly bit, you can export your template from 
GNUmed to a file system directory as

        filename

and then pipe its lines through

        cat filename | grep "\$<\+.\+>\$\+" | grep -v 
"\$<\+.\+::\{1\}.*::\{1\}.*>\$\+"

which should output only those lines which contain $< >$ and which fail to 
contain the required double instance of

        ::   ::

Example:
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macbook:~ djb$ cat myfile.tex | grep "\$<\+.\+>\$\+" | grep -v 
"\$<\+.\+::\{1\}.*::\{1\}.*>\$\+"

born $<date_of_birth::%d %b %Y>$\\
MRN \hspace{2 mm} $<external_id::MRN Medical Record Number//BC.CA_VCHA>$

macbook:~ djb$ 

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-- Jim