On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Logan Kelly wrote: > Alan, > OK. so readfile was easy. I think I missed a trick there. Anyway... > > The big difference between Yahoo and the BLS is that the BLS returns a > JSON format. Any suggestions on parsing a JSON result string? Will join > do that?
Not easily. In fact, I had to use JSON objects some time ago and I used perl for that, but we could probably introduce a hansl primitive for converting bundles from/to JSON objects. The only missing piece of the puzzle would be that we don't have a generic array type. Allin and I discussed the opportunity of introducing an "array" data type a few months back. The problem is, it'll have to be for the next release. In the meantime, would your job be doable via the existing hansl string functions? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------
