1. Re: HELP with 'seek' -- to Irv Mullins
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Irv,
>
> Yes, the files are always comma-delimited ascii, which I download daily from a
> number of commodity-price vendors. The
> files are NOT discardable, as I maintain a history of daily prices for 10
> years (20 years, in a few cases). Each day's
> data is to be parsed out to the appropriate history file, and appended.
>
> I'm sure you're right about EDS being a great tool to use for the purpose, and
> I will get there. But, right now, my goal
> is to learn Euphoria
> thoroughly, before moving on to EDS.
Thanks for the info. I would handle this in the following manner:
1. write a program to convert the daily download (filtering as appropriate) and
append it to your EDS database.
2. write all the analysis code to access the database.
This way, you'd have the advantage of flexibility (could easily evaluate the
data in new ways) and would eliminate a lot of the picky details you've
encountered using your present method. - typecasting, back-reading files,
etc.
BTW, EDS is an easy 1 afternoon "learn" :)
Regards,
Irv
