ascii2fts (Financial Time Series)

Create financial time series object from ASCII data file

Syntax

tsobj = ascii2fts(filename, descrow, colheadrow, skiprows)

Arguments

filename
ASCII data file

descrow
(Optional) Row number in the data file that contains the description to be used for the description field of the financial time series object.

colheadrow

(Optional) Row that has the column headers/names.

skiprows
(Optional) Scalar or vector of consecutive row numbers to be skipped in the data file.

`filename`	ASCII data file
`descrow`	(Optional) Row number in the data file that contains the description to be used for the description field of the financial time series object.
`colheadrow`	(Optional) Row that has the column headers/names.
`skiprows`	(Optional) Scalar or vector of consecutive row numbers to be skipped in the data file.

Description

tsobj = ascii2fts(filename, descrow, colheadrow, skiprows) creates a financial time series object tsobj from the ASCII file named filename. The general format of the text data file is:

May contain header text lines
May contain column header information. The column header information must immediately precede the data series columns.
Leftmost column must be the date column.
Dates must be in a valid date string format:

'ddmmmyy' or 'ddmmmyyyy'
'mm/dd/yy' or 'mm/dd/yyyy'
'dd-mmm-yy' or 'dd-mmm-yyyy'

Each column must be separated either by spaces or a tab.

Example

dis = ascii2fts('disney.dat', 1, 3, 2)

See Also

fints

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