1. Re: HELP with 'seek' -- to Irv Mullins
Irv,
Your comments make EDS sound really exciting. I will start with EDS this coming
week, concurrently with my Euphoria studies,
rather than waiting 'till I feel expert with Euphoria.
Glad to know there's someone out there who has EDS well in hand.
Thanks.
Jim Duffy
Irv Mullins wrote:
> 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
