Re: HELP with 'seek'
- Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 18, 2000
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, I sent the backup version of the file. Let's try again with the _current_ one :) -- Am I reading your code correctly, you're only using the last three records? -- fI so, the following should work without warning include get.e constant DATE = 1, OPEN1 = 2, HIGH1 = 3, LOW1 = 4, CLOSE1 = 5, VOLUME1 = 6, OPENINT1 = 7 atom DayRange1, UpperShadow1, LowerShadow1 object data, line atom fn function readline() object line, item line = {} for i = DATE to OPENINT1 do item = get(fn) if item[1] = GET_SUCCESS then line = append(line,item[2]) else return -1 end if end for return line end function fn = open("testdata.txt","r") data = {} while 1 do line = readline() if atom(line) then exit else data = append(data,line) end if end while close(fn) printf(1,"%d records read\n",length(data)) for i = 1 to length(data) do printf(1,"Date: %s\n",{data[i][DATE]}) for j = OPEN1 to OPENINT1 do data[i][j] = value(data[i][j]) data[i][j] = data[i][j][2] end for end for -- discard all but last 3 records; data = data[length(data)-3..length(data)] clear_screen() puts(1,"Last 3 days\n") puts(1,"Date Open High Low Close Volume OpenInt\n") for i = 1 to length(data) do printf(1,"%s %4.5f %4.5f %4.5f %8d %8d \n",data[i]) end for