OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu Data Format (was Eu to C...)

• Posted by jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Jul 25, 2001
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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