Why Have A Repeating Text Field ?

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Hi there –

I’m wondering why the 4.1 spec. states that a News message has a repeating Text field (#58) ?

The length of the Text field is unrestricted and line-break characters (10 and/or 13) can be inserted at will since they are not used as delimiters.

So why does it repeat?

Thanks,

– Reuben Harris
reuben@snowvalley.com

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[ original email was from Yevgeniy Tovshteyn - yevgeniy@javtech.com ]
I think it is to include several News, to divide up different News(that even may relate to the same group of Symbols).

> Hi there –
>
>
> I’m wondering why the 4.1 spec. states that a News message has a repeating Text field (#58) ?
>
> The length of the Text field is unrestricted and line-break characters (10 and/or 13) can be inserted at will since they are not used as delimiters.
>
> So why does it repeat?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> – Reuben Harris
> reuben@snowvalley.com
>

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> Hi there –
>
>
> I’m wondering why the 4.1 spec. states that a News message has a repeating Text field (#58) ?
>
> The length of the Text field is unrestricted and line-break characters (10 and/or 13) can be inserted at will since they are not used as delimiters.
>
> So why does it repeat?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> – Reuben Harris
> reuben@snowvalley.com
>

Just recently in adapting a CMS message to Fix Format, I originally thought that we could use the text field in a new order message for trailer information that isn’t defined in the Fix Protocol new order, using special codes to denote pieces of data and line feeds as breaks.

Then I realized that what I was doing was instinctively reverting back to a CMS approach.

On second thought I decided that we would use the text field for only one string of trailer information and if we needed more, we would have user defined fields.

I think this approach is more in keeping with the FIX Protocol, which is so much easier for programmers to work with than scanning for line feeds as required by other protocols. I would assume that is the reason for repeating text fields rather than having line feeds in the middle of one string.