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there's an important distinction. if any item other than the last in incomplete, every item from the incomplete item to the last item (inclusive) will be corrupt. there may or may not be data remaining in the buffer as well.

I think that this comment serves to confuse rather than clarify.

There is no important distinction to be made here. If the data is corrupt then all decoding schemes will fail.

If the data isn't corrupt then having the incomplete item remain in the buffer is an advantage. It means that the program can add to the buffer until at least one record is read.

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John.

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