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Often, when a script writes results to a file, the output file's path and name are hard-coded into the script or passed to the script as an Argument. Any further

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

processing of the resulting data must read in data from a file and access the disk again. This limits our ability to use other Commandline tools forcing us to d

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

uplicate effort by writing Heap Sort routines instead of using DOS's Sort command and so on.

Eliminating the ability of our scripts to write output directly to

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

file increases the flexibility in the ways our scripts can be used. Our scripts should write any processed output to the Command Line Interface (CLI). For examp

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

le, let's say we already have a script called Transform.vbs which transforms data in one file and sends the processed results to another file. Originally we may

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ave had to provide both the input file and the output file as arguments (if we didn't hard-code the output file within our script).

cscript //nologo file_in.txt

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

file_out.csv

So it does its job. But it really is WYSIAYG (what-you-see-is-all-you-get!). If our script wrote its processed results directly to the CLI then we

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

could write the following:

cscript //nologo file_in.txt > my_file.csv

Seems like a small change doesn't it? But with the added flexibility we can now further p

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

rocess the results using DOS or other CLI tools. Suppose we wanted to sort the results A-Z aswell:

cscript //nologo file_in.txt | sort > my_file.csv

Perhaps we

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

want to filter results based upon certain criteria and sort them A-Z:

cscript //nologo file_in.txt | find "my criteria" | sort > my_file.csv

We can do more. Sa

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

y we have a file listing zoo animal details:

Cage=1, Animal=Monkey, Food=Bananas, Count=6
Cage=2, Animal=Giraffe, Food=Leaves, Count=2

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

Cage=3, Animal=Elephant, Food=Popcorn, Count=3

Cage=4, Animal=Prawn, Food=Fish flakes, Count=100

Cage=5, Animal=Lion, Food=Pedestrians,

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ount=20

Cage=6, Animal=Scorpion, Food=Chicken, Count=25

Cage=7, Animal=Otter, Food=Fish, Count=12

Our script processes this file

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

working out the dollar amount of our food bill by accessing the prices of food on a database. We want a bill for all of the animals listed in order of their nam

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

. We do not want any animals which eat Fish or Fish flakes. We can process our data like this:

cscript //nologo file_in.txt | | find /V "Fish" | sort > my_file

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

.csv

The result of our script processing the dollar cost and printing its CSV output is:

Elephant,Popcorn,$900
Giraffe,Leaves,$450

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ion,Pedestrians,$850

Monkey,Bananas,$300

Scorpion,Chicken,$250

With a little imagination we can extend this to print out results v

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ia the Notepad application using Notepad's [/P] switch. So now we have:

cscript //nologo file_in.txt | | find /V "Fish" | sort > my_file.csv&sleep 3000¬epad

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

/p my_file.csv

Here is an example where we process multiple files (We don't print them though):

for %i in (*.txt) do cscript //nologo %i | find /V "Fish" | sor

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

t >> my_file.csv

All this flexibility is available to us when we forgo writing directly to a file from our script and print results directly to the CLI instead

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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