>>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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>regards
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>thomas

Out of curiosity I checked HL7 format. It's not a simple fixed format but more like a definition/data combination. Something like an XML parser might be needed (didn't check thouroughly).
Cetin