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No, you cannot subscribe to a single field in a message.

Although it is not the exact case, the problem is subscribe to topic type sensor_msgs Temperature containing a header field.

I don't really understand what you are trying to say. Perhaps if you describe it more clearly, we can help come up with some alternatives.

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