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And of course when I said "segment" in my message below, I meant "Sequence". Dale > Hi Naresh, > > > > Is it possible to have a sequence as below where the pmap bit is set > > > to false for the length of the sequence. > > > > > > [sequence name="MDEntries"] [typeRef name="MDIncGrp"/] [length > > > name="NoMDEntries" id="268"] [copy/] [/length] [string > > > name="MDUpdateAction" id="279"] [copy value="0"/] [/string] [!-- 0: > > > New --] .... > > > > > > The field [length name="NoMDEntries" id="268"] [copy/] [/length] > > > > > > has a false in the pmap bit > > > > > > Therefore am not sure who many times to iterate through the sequence > > > > > The pmap bit associated with a segment applies to the length field of > the segment. This pmap bit tells you whether the length appears on-the- > wire. What it means when the length does not appear on-the-wire is > determined by the operator associated with the length field. > > In your case the length field of the sequence has a copy operator. The > zero pmap bit is telling you that the sequence length does not appear > on-the-wire. Instead you should re-use the previous length value from > the appropriate dictionary. > > Dale > -- > Dale Wilson Principal Software Engineer Object Computing, Inc. > (www.ociweb.com) Lead developer for QuickFAST (http:www.quickfast.org) [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
