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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, UG wrote:
> Equis Support writes:
>
> > Symbol, Last, Change, Volume, Previous,High, Low, %Chg
> >
> > use, or a word processor and remove the Change, Previous and %Chg columns
That is what we call insanity :-) Here come the boys in the white suits...
> *Lord* that's a lot of work. I format the Ascii data I get using a simple
> perl script, which is mucho fast, and can be run from a batch file.
Absolutely.
>
> perl, BTW, comes with the NT resource kits (which I'd suggest you DON'T use;
> ask me privately if you're interested why) *and* at
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/perl/CPAN/ports/win32/standard/.
Agreed, the Gurusamy Sarathy port of Perl 5.004 precompiled for Win32
comes with many internetworking tools, including the LWP module.
ActiveState has a compiled version of 5.005, but it's new and I never
cared for the previous port since it lacked many of the modules that came
with the Standard port. The Standard and ActiveState port were to merge
into one, so maybe that is what is happening now.
>
> If anyone wants to explore this route, I'd be happy to write them a simple
> converter from Ascii format <X> to the Ascii format that the downloader can
> read. I can't say this service would be free, but if the programming effort
> on my part could be done in a day or less (and I'd be willing to bet it could;
> programming is what I do for a lving), it very likely would be next to
> nothing.
The conversion code is already part of the (free) QuoteMonster script:
http://www.xmlworks.com/quotemonster/ The ability to reorder the fields
and add headers is built in. If there is a need for a data manipulation
script it can be built from the code in the QM script.
Cheers,
Jim
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Let the script be with you
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