>>>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.
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Does something like this work for you??????????
llFirstRecord = .T.
FOR EACH lineofText IN oText
DO CASE
CASE LEFT(lineofText,3) = "MSH" AND llFirstRecord
llFirstRecord = .F.
CASE LEFT(lineofText,3) = "MSH"
SendCompletionMessage
OTHERWISE
ENDCASE
DO CASE
CASE "MSH"
CASE "EVN"
CASE "ETC"
ENDCASE
ENDFOR
SendCompletionMessage