[ts-gen] Fair merge

[Ken Feng]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for posting this - it's functionally equivalent to a simple
table mapping, but very readable since it's all in Ruby.

I will convert my code to follow your pattern...

- Ken

On 9/16/09, Bill Pippin <pippin at owlriver.net> wrote:
> Nils,
>
> About selecting specific events from the shim's log stream, as opposed
> to using two shim sessions:
>
>> ... There is one small reason [for multiple shim sessions] ...
>> a small order reference log file without the tick noise makes
>> it easier to control the order flow / status situation by inspection.
>
> Selected, user-focused displays are of course important.  As the first
> step in choosing which events to display, it would be straight forward
> but clumsy to use tail -f and grep with the --line-buffered option.
> Since this would not scale very well for feature extension, a scripting
> language such as ruby is probably the better option for the grep'ing
> stage.
>
> The key elements are patterns such as the following:
>
>     CommandExec = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}1\|}
>      PlaceOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 3\|15\|}
>     CancelOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 4\| 1\|}
>     OrderStatus = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 3\| 6\|}
>      ErrMessage = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 4\| 2\|}
>      OpenOrders = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 5\|10\|}
>       Portfolio = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 7\| 7\|}
>     ContractSym = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|10\| 6\|}
>      Executions = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|11\| 7\|}
>      CmdEnqueue = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|11\| 0\|}
>     JournalPost = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|12\| 0\|}
>
> Once given the pattern matching, the code is trivial; a script
> follows my sig, and I've also added the file choose.rb to the
> exs directory, so that it will be included in the next release.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> -------- cut here ------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> #  author: Bill Pippin, <pippin at trading-shim.com>, msgs may gate to the list
> #  copyright (c) 2008 Trading-shim.com, LLC  Columbus, OH
> #  GPL version 3 or later, see COPYING for details
>
> # choose.rb:
> # Choose a risk-focused subset of events given a shim log stream as input.
> # Usage: e.g., tail -f log/ShimText | exs/choose.rb
>
> # More precisely, match on src-tag-ver triples, split on vertical bars,
> # slice the array to drop the first three fields, reconstitute via join,
> # and slice the resulting string to fit the terminal display.
>
>     CommandExec = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}1\|}
>      PlaceOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 3\|15\|}
>     CancelOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 4\| 1\|}
>     OrderStatus = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 3\| 6\|}
>      ErrMessage = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 4\| 2\|}
>      OpenOrders = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 5\|10\|}
>       Portfolio = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 7\| 7\|}
>     ContractSym = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|10\| 6\|}
>      Executions = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|11\| 7\|}
>      CmdEnqueue = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|11\| 0\|}
>     JournalPost = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|12\| 0\|}
>
>     def print_data line
>       fields = line.chop.split('|')
>       length = fields.size
>       print fields[3,length].join('|')[0..78], "|\n"
>     end
>
>     STDIN.each do |x|
>       case x
> #       when CommandExec ; print_data x
>         when  PlaceOrder ; print_data x
>         when CancelOrder ; print_data x
>         when OrderStatus ; print_data x
>         when  ErrMessage ; print_data x
>         when  OpenOrders ; print_data x
>         when   Portfolio ; print_data x
>         when ContractSym ; print_data x
>         when  Executions ; print_data x
>         when  CmdEnqueue ; print_data x
>         when JournalPost ; print_data x
>       end
>     end
>
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