Hey..I still use Martin Moore's TAS program and I knew the guy briefly.. Given what you say below...what about QBasic? Might even already be free and on our computer within DOS. It can read .csv files. Using EXCEL may be the easiest method, though.
--- In [email protected], George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use to run a DOS based Parsing program that you could program to do > almost anything you wanted to edit text files. I would think there > should still be programs that would do that. I used it back in the > days I downloaded stock quotes from Prodigy and use Martin's Moore > TAS program for stock analysis. > > I did a search on Google for: > > parse text files > > and found the following type: > File Parse extracts and reformats text from text files according to > parameters you define. It can convert multi-line records into > single-line records and vice-versa. > > or: > > http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/3590 > > At 03:57 PM 1/11/2007, you wrote: > >--- In [email protected], "optiontrader3290" <dale3290@> > >wrote: > > > > >Dale: > > > > I thought about that, deleting the problems from the QP2 List, > >actually I think you can do it in the LIST file on QP2, but when you > >do it you leave a space in the list. I'm not sure that won't mess up > >the transfer somewhere along the line. If you could just take the > >last one on the list and put it in the blank space that might work, > >but I think the list is alphabetized and that would screw that up. I > >don't know if it matters or not, but I might try it and see. > > > > DanB > > > > > > > Dan: > > > Sorry about the previous post it was posted in error. > > > > > > I tried that as a scan and it does not work. > > > > > > How about just opening the .csv file in Notepad and do a search on > > > the 5 symbols delete them. Then save the file. > > > > > > > > > Dale > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "ubde" <ubde@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have an old stock charting software (Window on Wall Street) that > >I > > > use > > > > QP2 data for input. I do this by exporting the QP2 data from a > >QP2 > > > scan > > > > list to a data file (CVS format) that I then import into the > > > charting > > > > software. Due to a quirk in the charting software there are > >about > > > 5 > > > > stocks out of 3600 that hang up my import until I manually skip > >the > > > > stock, during the import process, to the next one, which then > > > continues > > > > the import. If I could skip the "bad" stocks and not write them > > > out to > > > > my chart input file, I could save myself a lot of time in the > > > import > > > > process. Does anyone know if there is a way to exclude the > >specific > > > > undesirable stocks from being written out to my charting import > > > file? > > > > Something like If Issue = StockX do not write. Is Issue (not > >Issue > > > Type) > > > > a ligit function? > > > > > > > > DanB > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
