wow! That simple! Yes it works!
Thanks, Seth!
Charles
On 4 December 2015 at 23:53, Seth <catch...@bromberger.com> wrote:
> Maybe this will work for you?
>
> julia> a = "foobarbaz"
> "foobarbaz"
>
> julia> b = SubString(a,3,6)
> "obar"
>
> julia> typeof(b)
> SubString{ASCIIString}
>
> julia> c = ASCIIString(b)
> "obar"
>
> julia> typeof(c)
> ASCIIString
>
>
>
> On Friday, December 4, 2015 at 2:48:12 PM UTC-8, Charles Santana wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
--
Um axé! :)
--
Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles
