Subject: Reading from a random year in a CSV file Posted: 10/3/2011 Viewed: 27523 times
There may be cases where you want to read a randomized sequence of data from a CSV file. You can use WEAP's built-in pseudo-random functions for this. (In this case, we will use the function RandomInteger.)
For example, assume your historical data file ("Flows.csv") had data for the years 1950-1999. First, Create a key assumption called RandomDataYear and set it equal to