Parsing Huge XML Files Incrementally
This post presents a Python script for parsing huge XML files incrementally. The purpose of the script is to convert XML tables to delimited text files. I searched online for …
Category: Data Management
This section is all about handling data
Extracting Metadata from Data Files
This post is about extracting metadata from data files created by Stata, SAS, and SPSS. The extraction is based on available features in the statistical software applications. Background The data …
How to Recover Data Records with Vimscript
This post shows how to recover records from fixed-format data files without end of line characters to indicate the end of a record. The record length must be read somehow, …
Fix Fixed-Format Data with Vimscript
The main purpose of this post is to share an example on how I use Vimscript to fix fixed-format data. However, I would like to start with a short “need …