Eric’s BizTalk 2004/2006 Blog

My BizTalk Experiences using Flat Files, InfoPath, BAM, BRE, BAS, HL7, HIPAA, WSS.

May 3, 2006

Fixed Length File with a variable component

Filed under: BizTalk — eric @ 6:26 pm

To extend the previous post, the following question was asked: How can the flat file parser consume a positional file when the end of each record might not be the length that is defined.

This actually is a very common occurrence, as I have had to deal with it, it mainly has to do with transfers from mainframes to windows based machines.

I deviated from the original file a little:
extrafield.JPG

 

I enabled Allow Early Termination:
EarlyTermination.JPG

And here is the sample.