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Re: ASCII Record Conversion



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Tim Gadd writes:

> Does anyone know of a simple program that will automatically reorder the
> fields of an ASCII file? I'd like to find something that allows you to
> designate the field order of the source file and the order of the
> (converted) target file.
> 
> For instance, if the field order of my source file is Date, Open, High, Low,
> Close, Volume and I want a converted file that includes just Date, Close,
> Volume - or if I just wanted to reorder all of the fields in each record of
> the file. I know that I can do this manually using a spreadsheet, etc. but
> thought there must be some shareware or something that accomplishes this
> more easily.
> 

I believe the quotemaster script has something like this functionality.  Or if
that's not to your liking; let me know.  I can write you script to do this.

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