> BHP 7/29/95 18.65 18.50 18.70 123456

> That is: Stock symbol, date (M/DD/YY or YYMMDD the former is probably
> preferable), High, Low, Close, Volume.

The latter is easier for me, so I will use it unless you can't
handle it, in which case I'll change the program for you.

Are you sure it's YYMMDD with no intervening "/"?  Here's the
program you need anyway.  Let me know if you have any problems,
or you want me to make the format MM/DD/YY.  It is simple to do,
it's just I'd prefer not to tarnish my hard disk with American
date formats if at all possible.

You will need to compile it yourself, or FREQ a copy from me, as
I'll compile it under MSDOS and make it available in my "MONEY"
area.  It will compile on any ISO-conforming C compiler.  EMX 0.9a
is a free compiler available for DOS and OS/2.


/*********************************************************************/
/*                                                                   */
/*  This Program Written by Paul Edwards, 3:711/934{at}fidonet.         */
/*  Released to the Public Domain                                    */
/*                                                                   */
/*********************************************************************/
/*********************************************************************/
/*                                                                   */
/*  aus2met - convert stock data (my format) into metastock text.    */
/*                                                                   */
/*  Example of use:                                                  */
/*  austmet outfile                                         */
/*                                                                   */
/*                                                                   */
/*  My format is                                                     */
/*                                                                   */
/*  951002|AAA|2.56|2.55|2.55|27200                                  */
/*                                                                   */
/*  Metastock format is                                              */
/*                                                                   */
/*  AAA 951002 2.56 2.55 2.55 27200                                  */
/*                                                                   */
/*  both are high, low, close and volume figures.                    */
/*                                                                   */
/*********************************************************************/

#include 
#include 

static char buf[200];
static char *p1;
static char *p2;
static char *p3;
static char *p4;
static char *p5;
static char *p6;

int main(void)
{
    while (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin) != NULL)
    {
        p1 = strtok(buf, "|");
        p2 = strtok(NULL, "|");
        p3 = strtok(NULL, "|");
        p4 = strtok(NULL, "|");
        p5 = strtok(NULL, "|");
        p6 = strtok(NULL, "|\n");
        printf("%s %s %s %s %s %s\n", p2, p1, p3, p4, p5, p6);
    }
    return (0);
}
@EOT:

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