hl7.parse and hl7.message - dealing with windows paths

This is a little problem we solved to make it easier to run scripts from windows customers on a Mac OS computer. This helper wrapper translates windows paths with \ into / characters.

This is part of the ‘shim’ library the converter uses. This shows it in action:

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Did you know that you just use / style separators on windows? It generally makes for more readable code since you don’t need to escape them like forward slashes.