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Mapping table of *.DAT files to symbol / security name required.
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Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 3/19/2006(UTC) Posts: 8 Location: Analyst
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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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Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 4/5/2006(UTC) Posts: 129 Location: Norgate Data
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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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