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Strategies & Market Trends : EZ-PnF, a P&F Charting Program -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andriy Turhovach who wrote (22)	3/8/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Ben Antanaitis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 178

ST, I guess the first question is.. do you have a spreadsheet program? That will give me (us) a starting point to reference to. The gist of the process is: 'import' the data file as a comma separated/delimited file. All spreadsheet, that I know of, have this capability.. some have 'import' as an option in the 'file' menu, others have 'import' as an option in their 'data' menu.. What this does, or should do, is to place each data entry in the source file into a separate column in the spreadsheet. You now have however many lines of data as there were days in the download. Some spreadsheet programs will allow you to 'select' the entire area of the data from A1..K360 or whatever your range is. Then they let you choose an option to SORT over the range based on the contents of the first column which is the date value. And they let you pick 'ascending' which will give you earliest to latest when the sort is finished. Other spreadsheets won't let you sort of the date field, they just think that field is a label (text) and they cannot sort that properly for a numeric sequence. But all is not lost! You can add an extra column to the right side of the last column of original data. Into this column you place the numbers 1 to however many lines you have. You then can do a 'range sort' over the area, based on the column of numbers you added as the 'sort key'. At this point, you should have the data in the 'date ascending' order. You now need to use the 'save as' or 'export' feature of your spreadsheet to save all the columns of data as a 'comma separated', or CSV type of output file. This will produce a file that is in the proper date order to create a P&F chart from this dimension.. :-) Oh, by the way, the requirement to add the leading zeros is removed as of version 2.1U of EZ-PnF. Ben Antanaitis, Jr.