NISHIL:
Thanks for the reply, but as noted in my original posting… I know I need to strip off the first line of the file – and I know that using a custom pipeline component would most likely be the best approach (thus the subject title of this thread)… the question is – how? I also noted that I have the BizTalk 2006 Recipes book, and the example there is close… and has gotten me started in the right direction… I’m just not completely sure on how to pull off just one line (the first in my case), parse that text, promote a property and then pass on (unprocessed) the remaining lines.