>Jay
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>This is out of the main discussion, but just curious. Are you getting a file with multiple HL7 messages and processing it rather than a live TCP/IP stream?
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>All of ours are are via tcp/ip and we process each one as they come in.
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>Kirk

By the way, if it's coming in as a stream, when do you call your procedures to parse/populate? Do you read it into a variable until a full message has come in, then process that message? You can't run it through a character at a time, so at some point you have to decide to process.