I have 3 producers. Each has 200 consumers as turtles who have purchased laptops. All producers sell laptops. The laptops have 3 kinds of features : size of the screen, price, battery life. Each has some levels. For example battery life has 5 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 30 hours. Each producer has some information about how consumers have rated these items based on what they have experienced that is stored in a csv file. So the CSV file header is something like this :
Consumer 12 13 13.5 14 14.5 15 500 600 750 650 550 700 5 12 24 30
( To exaplin the header : 12 - 15 represent levels of screen size, 500 - 700 price, 5 - 30 battery life in hours)
Each producer needs to analyze the data stored in the CSV file. I used the example code in the library to use a csv file which creates a turtle and assigns values to it using item.
to read-turtles-from-csv
file-close-all ; close all open files
if not file-exists? "turtles.csv" [
user-message "No file 'turtles.csv' exists! Try pressing WRITE-TURTLES-TO-CSV."
stop
]
file-open "turtles.csv" ; open the file with the turtle data
; We'll read all the data in a single loop
while [ not file-at-end? ] [
; here the CSV extension grabs a single line and puts the read data in a list
let data csv:from-row file-read-line
; now we can use that list to create a turtle with the saved properties
create-turtles 1 [
if item 2 data > item 2 data ...
if item 7 data < item 8 data ...
]
]
file-close ; make sure to close the file
end
Here the csv file should not have a header row. The first row is selected for turtle 1. If we need to compare the consumer's rate for 2 levels of screen size like 13 and 13,5 , here it can do that :
If item 2 > item 3 ...
So far it works pretty well. Howeber, I need to use the header. For instance, I want to create a situation when a user chooses a number, if it is in one of the columns (is in the header), then the value gets selected. Otherwise, if the value does not exist in the header, somthing else should be done. Can I make the code recognize CSV header while working with agents?
Thanks,