I should have reposted late last night that I figured out that if the cursor/fields were created, then it would populate correctly on the INSERT. Thanks!

>sometimes I am tooo lazy...
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>>I was playing around with this and can't see how Alltrim(laFields[2]) = "MSH" or whatever segment ID. The laFields array has a row for each segment, but there is only one column and it contains the entire segment value, not parsed elements. I must be missing something...
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>create cursor Curs_MSH ( ;
>    cRecno C(9), cCursType C(5), cSpecialMSH1 C() .. )
>create cursor Curs_EVN ( ;
>    cRecno C(9), cCursType C(5), cSpecialEVN1 C() .. )
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>lnFlagsAsYouNeedYourdata = 1 && see helpfile on options here
>FOR ix=1 TO alines(laLines,m.lcSample)
>   = alines(laFields, Alltrim(Str(m.ix)) + "|" + laLines[m.ix], lnFlagsAsYouNeedYourdata,"|")
>   Insert into ("Curs_" + Alltrim(laFields[2]) ) from Array laFields
>endfor
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