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Re: HELP with 'seek'

• Posted by Jim <futures8 at PCOLA.GULF.NET> Aug 20, 2000
• 486 views

Irv,

Again, Thanks. Lots of interesting stuff for me to study here. I like
your assignment of field numbers as constants. Make following the code
a lot clearer.

Regards,

Jim Duffy

Irv Mullins wrote:

> 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