I am curious as to why you are trying to parse the block chain file instead of querying the coin daemon for the information
When I wrote the CCE 3 block explorer software, I completely abandoned the ABE style of parsing the block chain files as the daemon will give you all the information you need without having to adjust to the different block structures of various chains.
I might be willing to give you limited license to the CCE 3 database loader, if you would give me a better idea of what you are ultimately trying to do.
Thanks dreamwatcher,
Ultimately i am working on a FULL bitcoin stats website that can pretty much tell you anything anybody would want to know about bitcoin at any given time. There are a lot of sites that give you a specific data set for a specific inquiry but really none that will give you everything all in one place.
Seeing as the one thing that a lot of people i have found ask for but is not readily available at any given website is "a list of all bitcoin addresses with a positive balance" i wanted to start there. With that information there are several sub sets of info that can be derived from that. Beyond being able to list every bitcoin address with a positive balance, i can then publish a statistic in number form that is easy to track. ( X# of bitcoin addresses in use today) and also (X# of bitcoin addresses in use yesterday) as well as (average # of bitcoin addresses in use this week, month, year, etc.) Also with that i can create an interface (php website) which links every one of those Xmillion addresses to our insight server (like blockchain) so people can view the statistics of each of them.
For now that is Ultimately what i am working on, in the total picture there is much more which i will list below, but if you were only interested in what i want the data i was asking for, that is why.
In overall other statistics that i will work on finding ways to gather in the end game are. Address with the Most TX's for the day, week, month, year, all time. # of addresses that have not been touched in a month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and longest untouched addresses (no TX out).
And in the VERY, VERY, VERY long term, probably the last part of the project, i will work on a way to calculate the average transaction value for the hour, day, week, month, year, and all time. This will be last as it involves the most amount of work, coding, math, and formulation to achieve.
But for now, i just want to start with finding a way to get a list of all addresses with unspent outputs carved down to a .txt file 1 addy per line that i can import into the SQL database, then i will work on a way of updating it with each block with the on block notify feature so it will be a live statistic and output.