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Thanks for the quick response. Sorry for not specifying the version but
rightly or wrongly I assumed that everybody uses Windows. Don't mean to
offend any Amiga users or any other operating system users.
Steven Taylor
Melbourne, Australia.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Dalley" <ddalley@xxxx>
To: "Steven Taylor" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Data Files
>
> Hi, Steven:
>
> Since you are asking general questions, I will reply generally.
>
> It would help if everyone specified for which version of AmiBroker they
are
> asking questions. I presume now that most users are using the PC version,
but
> some of us don't. Sometimes I can be more specific with the Amiga usage.
>
> On 02-Dec-00, Steven Taylor wrote:
>
> > I'm considering purchasing AmiBroker.
>
> That is a good move. ;^)
>
> > Q1. Is it possible to only import the text file containing the long
> > names and therefore within AmiBroker a long name will be displayed.
>
> Sure. You only need to have a way of relating the ticker with the company
> name. You have that in one of the files. You then need to use a program to
> read the file(s) and parse (break down) the text into ticker and co. name
> variables. I presume that the name files are organised well - ticker and
name
> on one line -, to make this easy.
>
> As you discovered, not all data is usually in one file; some, such as EOD
> data, don't come with company names. More than one program may be needed,
to
> support all of your various data sources. Sometimes it's best to make more
> than one program; sometimes you can merge two importers into one. It's up
to
> you to decide which is best.
>
> > Q2. Regarding the EOD data, importing the history of prices, is it
> > possible to automatically import each EOD text file from a specified
> > date. (Say for this year only there are about 330 separate files
> > already).
> > As you can imagine I'm trying to avoid individually importing each
> > text file.
>
> That is what looping does for you. Set up a procedure to read, parse, then
> import, data from each file, until there are no more files to read. (BTW,
I
> find parsing to be a lot of programming fun. Someone who likes puzzles may
> find it enjoyable, too.) Maybe Tomasz can explain if the PC version's
ASCII
> importer can be used to import a group of files; otherwise, another
> programming language will be needed, as shown below.
>
> In very simple pseudo-code (expand as needed):
>
> DO FOREVER
>
> READ a filename from list
> PARSE file
> IMPORT data
> IF no more files THEN BREAK
>
> END (forever)
>
> SAVE database
>
> Have a coffee break or mow the lawn; when you return it will be all done.
;^)
>
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