How do I modify this small code to be able to extract data to a matrix and not a buffer?
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url_string='http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=AAPL&a=10&b=15&c=2005&d=01&e=17&f=2006&g=d&ignore=.csv'
buffer = java.io.BufferedReader(...
java.io.InputStreamReader(...
openStream(...
java.net.URL(url_string))));
% Begin with 2nd line (exclude header)
ptr = 1;
while 1
% Read line
buff_line = char(readLine(buffer));
% Break if this is the end
if length(buff_line)<3, break; end
% Find comma delimiter locations
commas = find(buff_line== ',');
% Extract high, low, open, close, etc. from string
adj_close = str2num( buff_line(commas(6)+1:end) )
ptr = ptr + 1;
end
%end
How do I change the code to
1.) Be able read in every line starting with the second line and transform this information into a matrix with only adj_close?
2.) This part should be easy: The format comes in a format where the most recent date is at the first line, most recent-1 is the next line and so on... How do I resort this matrix where adj_close is resorted? Basically the 1st value becomes the last and the last becomes the first (so on and so forth) Does flipud do this?
Thanks for all of your help,
-LG
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Accepted Answer
Geoff
on 24 Feb 2012
Part 1: Slightly inefficient, but not really a problem. You can just split each line using strread and grow the adj_close matrix each iteration... Be aware that if the number of elements in each row changes, you will get an error. In that case, you would need to force the number of items in each row vector to some value, probably by counting the number of entries in the header. That's an exercise for you =)
% Begin with 2nd line (exclude header)
readLine(buffer);
adj_close = [];
while 1
buff_line = char(readLine(buffer));
if length(buff_line)<3, break; end
vals = strread(buff_line,'%f','delimiter',',');
adj_close = [adj_close; vals'];
end
Part 2: Yes, you can use flipud to reverse the matrix.
adj_close = flipud(adj_close);
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