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re: Repeating groups
Vitaly Shatsky / InoReach, Inc.
11 Aug 1998 1:01AM ET

> Since the first field of a repeating group is
> required if that group is used, I simply use the
> presence of that first field as a "row"
> delimiter. That works pretty well and is pretty
> clean. It works equally effective on
> sub-repeating groups.

I use the same approach and it works fine.
However, unfortunately, there is one case when the first field of a repeating group is NOT required. In Allocation message:

124        NoExecs
17        ExecID - non-required
32        LastShares - required if NoExecs > 0
31        LastPx - required if NoExecs > 0
29        LastCapacity - non-required

I believe, it would make to introduce a negligible
change to the spec and change the position of field 17 (ExecID) in this repeating group.
This would make all repeating groups consistent.


Repeating groups
Benedict Zoe / Bloomberg L.P.   10 Aug 1998 12:25PM ET
re: Repeating groups
Scott Atwell / American Century   10 Aug 1998 1:04PM ET
re: Repeating groups
Benedict Zoe / Bloomberg L.P.   10 Aug 1998 1:45PM ET
re: Repeating groups
Scott Atwell / American Century   10 Aug 1998 2:12PM ET
re: Repeating groups
Vitaly Shatsky / InoReach, Inc.   11 Aug 1998 1:01AM ET
re: Repeating groups
Scott Atwell / American Century   11 Aug 1998 7:23AM ET