Re: [Quickfix-developers] QuickFIX Log Analysis

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

> What you're looking for is really a perfect job for a Perl script
> though.  Here's the skeleton of something that can read a quickfix
> message store (or any file that just contains raw FIX messages one
> per-line) and parses each message into a hash of field IDs and values.
>  The rest it up to you:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> while (<>) {
>      chomp;
>      my %MSG = map { split /=/, $_, 2 } split /\001/;
>      # Do something with %MSG
> }
> 

Using Perl has the additional advantage, that it also runs on a lot of 
non-UNIX systems.

But also have a look at the Python and Ruby scripting languages. 
Actually for these languages there are native QF APIs so can avoid all 
the parsing stuff but use QF directly from Python or Ruby. Since I am 
neither a Python or Ruby programmers, others from the list may 
contribute the scripts.

BTW, Caleb, did you consider adding your script snippets to the WikiFIX 
site?  It is actually meant as an repository for this kind of stuff.

Cheers, Jörg

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