Re: True Integer, Double

Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> "RC" <raymond.chui@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:482863AA.7000200@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Eric Sosman wrote:
>>
>>>     Try explaining your notion of "TRUE" a bit more, and/or
>>> consider using java.text.NumberFormat.
>> I have some text data look like this (written by some
>> retiree in Fortran)
>> I need to convert them into XML file
>>
>> 1295   1     38.23     39.26     41.10     43.82     47.50     45.29
>>
>> Which means data starts from
>> <event data="1995-12-1 00:00:00" value="38.23" />
>> <event data="1995-12-1 06:00:00" value=" 39.26" />
>> <event data="1995-12-1 12:00:00" value=" 41.10" />
>> <event data="1995-12-1 18:00:00" value=" 43.82" />
>> <event data="1995-12-2 00:00:00" value=" 47.50" />
>> <event data="1995-12-2 06:00:00" value=" 45.29" />
>>
>> Now, you can see column 0 and column 1(1st and 2nd columns)
>> are TRUE Integer.
>> After column 2 (3rd column) are TRUE Double.
> 
> The first two numbers in the text file written by the retiree are
probably 
> header lines, something pretty commonly used in flat files by us
geriatric 
> types. The usual way of handling a situation like this is to understand
the 
> format of the file, read the header if necessary (and use it if
necessary - 
> these two values are probably # of data values and maybe # of fields),
and 
> then read all the data, *knowing* that the data are floating point.
> 

I took the 1295 to mean month 12 of year (19)95 rather than # data 
values. The 1 is then the day of month. The following decimal values are 
at 6 hour intervals. This corresponds with the XML fragment.


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