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Mapping table of *.DAT files to symbol / security name required.

Last post 10-24-2009, 20:48 by Richard Dale. 1 replies.


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10-23-2009, 1:41 30989

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Mapping table of *.DAT files to symbol / security name required.

Good day,

Is there any way of obtaining a mapping table of my *.DAT files to the underlying Symbol or Security name for the data it contains? I don't mind constructing this table manually if that is the only method. I had a quick look inside the Master file but that is binary and I have no knowledge on how to access it.

Any advice gratefully received.

Steve

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10-24-2009, 20:48 30994 in reply to 30989

Richard Dale
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Re: Mapping table of *.DAT files to symbol / security name required.

Such information is stored in binary form inside the MASTER and EMASTER files. The "MetaStock" data format is quite well known (it's a simple extension of the Computrac format from the 1980s) - just do a search for "MetaStock data format" on Google.

It would be a trivial exercise for a programmer to read in such files and provide you with the "dat" or "mwd" file number.

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