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On Nov 15, 2007 5:58 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> 071115 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. |
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> > The file lists only the day the data changes. |
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> > There are only 144 lines representing 23 years of data. |
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> > There are three values for the data - 1, 0 & -1. The file looks like this: |
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> > 09/27/74, 1 |
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> > 07/11/75, -1 |
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> > 08/01/75, 1 |
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> > 03/12/76, -1 |
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> > 04/02/76, 1 |
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> > 05/07/76, -1 |
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> > 06/04/76, 1 |
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> > I need to turn this data into a file with the same format |
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> > but one that has data for every date, something like this: |
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> > 09/28/74, 1 |
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> > 09/29/74, 1 |
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> > 09/30/74, 1 |
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> I would do it with Vim, mainly 's' & 'q'. It would probably help slightly |
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> if you used international date format: '1974-09-27' etc. HTH |
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Thanks for all the answers. They were interesting. |
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After I wrote to this group I wondered if there was a way to do this |
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in Open Office so I wrote to t. Turns out in the Calc there is a |
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simple function called VLOOKUP. Put the original table in one area, |
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create a long list of dates from 1974 through present in another area |
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and have VLOOKUP find the right date and value. The whole process took |
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about 5 minutes once I was directed to the functions. |
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Again, I appreciate the responses. |
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- Mark |
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