Hi people,

Maybe it is a trivial question for most of you, but I really could not find
a way to solve my problem.

I am using the function quandlget(id::ASCIIString) from the library
https://github.com/milktrader/Quandl.jl (a great contribution, by the way!)

Everything works fine when I use it in a straightforward way:

julia> mydat = quandl("GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG",rows=100,format="DataFrame")
100x6 DataFrames.DataFrame
| Row | Date       | Open   | High   | Low    | Close  | Volume    |
|-----|------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-----------|
| 1   | 2015-07-08 | 521.05 | 522.73 | 516.11 | 516.83 | 1.2967e6  |
| 2   | 2015-07-09 | 523.12 | 523.77 | 520.35 | 520.68 | 1.84235e6 |
| 3   | 2015-07-10 | 526.29 | 532.56 | 525.55 | 530.13 | 1.95668e6 |


or when I do:

julia> myid = "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG"
"GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG"

julia> typeof(myid)
ASCIIString

julia> mydat = quandl(myid,rows=100,format="DataFrame")
100x6 DataFrames.DataFrame
| Row | Date       | Open   | High   | Low    | Close  | Volume    |
|-----|------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-----------|
| 1   | 2015-07-08 | 521.05 | 522.73 | 516.11 | 516.83 | 1.2967e6  |
| 2   | 2015-07-09 | 523.12 | 523.77 | 520.35 | 520.68 | 1.84235e6 |
| 3   | 2015-07-10 | 526.29 | 532.56 | 525.55 | 530.13 | 1.95668e6 |


However, I get an error when I read my data from an external file. Assume I
have an ascii file containing only one line:

$ echo "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG" > portfolio.txt

$ cat portfolio.txt
GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG


I just read the content of this file by using readdlm and try to use it to
call the same function quandl, but it does not work.

julia> myportfolio = readdlm("./portfolio.txt",'\n')
1x1 Array{Any,2}:
 "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG"

julia> typeof(myportfolio[1])
SubString{ASCIIString}

julia> mydat = quandl(myportfolio[1],rows=100,format="DataFrame")
ERROR: MethodError: `quandlget` has no method matching
quandlget(::SubString{ASCIIString})


I suppose the easiest way to solve this problem is to convert my
SubString{ASCIIString} variable to ASCIIString. Am I right here? How can I
do it?

Does any of you have another suggestion? May be I could read my data in a
different way instead of using readdlm?

Thanks for any tip!

best,

Charles
-- 
Um axé! :)

--
Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles

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