[amibroker] faster way to automate ascii import through script?

["theross03" <ross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I did some research on how to automate the import of ascii data into
AB through a script.  I found this article:
http://www.amibroker.com/docs/ab302.html

I modified it to loop through all of the .csv files in a specified
folder and execute the ImportCSV() function for each of the files.

I did a test run for approx 10 tickers, with EOD data for the past 20
years (about 300KB per file) and it took over a minute per ticker.

When I just manually do the import using File > Import ASCII, then
select all files in my data folder, it only takes a minute or two to
import all this data for the entire S&P500.  

Why is it so much slower thru jscript?


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