>>I sort of asked this before, but not exactly for this situation. I need to know when a message has finished processing (populating a record in a table) to send an acknowledgement back through a port. I can be processing one or many messages in one bunch of text. This is just psudocode, so syntax is exceptionally lax... Thanks!
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>What do you mean by a message has finished processing (populating a record in a table)?
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>You may have some trigger in the table...

Just think of a big bunch of text with "MSH" and "EVN" imbedded at the beginning of lines. MSH means the first line of a message and a new record is appended. EVN (and any other following headers) mean that information needs to be populated into the new record. I do not have the luxary of putting triggers on this table, so it needs to be done in the code. When a message has finished I need to be able to say, "Cool, it finished. Let's send something back telling the sender it went well." Then onto the next message in the big bunch of text.