1. Re: Eu Data Format (was Eu to C...)
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 irvm at ellijay.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 July 2001 10:06, jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
>
> > > I don't understand. What is Euphoria sequence format? What does
> > > print.e do?
>
> I took a few minutes to write a converter which changes your text data
> file (abbrev_modified.txt) into a single Eu sequence.
>
> Before: 2.3 meg
> After: 1.7 meg
>
> Time to read the new data file into memory: 2 seconds.
>
> Entire code to read the 6210 records:
>
> fn = open("newdata.dat","r")
> data = get(fn)
> if data[1] = GET_SUCCESS then data = data[2]
> else abort(1)
> end if
>
> The new file contains string data where strings are used, and numeric
> data elsewhere. This not only saves space, but speeds up the works.
> There's no parsing required.
>
> The drawback: you'll have to use sprintf() when loading data into a
> windows control, but that's not a big problem - sprintf() seems fast.
>
> I can e-mail the converted file to you privately if you want.
Yes. Please do.
> Regards,
> Irv
Jerry Story
