>>If everything is regular (order of fields do not change etc) it'd be easy:) However there are other messages saying that this is an HL7 format (which I don't know the details) the situation might be much more complex than it looks.
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>Well, info about the line structure was sparse. But as long as each line maps to a special cursor type (perhaps 2 or 5 different "CUR_EVH" depending on fields 16, 23 ad 35 for instance I'ld still go for some cursor naming handling.
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If every line (segment) truly maps to a completely different table or cursor, that is truly completely different animal than EDI...where information that normally would be stored in one table may span multiple segments.

Would appreciate if someone would shed some light on this, just for curiousity's sake.