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Hi Mark,
Thank you for giving me the advise on how those data should be interpreted.
Appropriate option for joining several fields into one ticker name will be available
in full 3.30 release (or even sooner in next beta)
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Allen <mpa@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 5:29 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] RE: ASX Data
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tomasz Janeczko [mailto:tjaneczk@x...]
> >
> > > How did you handle the Stock Code and Issuer Codes in fields 1 and 2? I
> > > merged them in a spreadsheet before import so that AmiBroker
> > sees both TLS
> > > and TLSCB ("CB" was originally in the 2nd field with no
> > recognition of it's
> > > purpose by AmiBroker that I could see).
> >
> > That's what I didn't understand in this data file. Are you saying
> > that you don't have
> > unique ticker symbols so one must combine some fields to get
> > unique string?
> > In my example I used the first column as a ticker name but I
> > could be wrong.
> > If proper way to handle it is to join two columns you just gave
> > me an idea of a
> > new command for format definition file :-)
>
> Yes, the Stockwatch data has the 3 letter stock code in the first field, and
> a 2 or 3 letter Issue, Option or Warrant code in the second. Eg., TLSCB is a
> subsequent issue of shares of TLS. Without concatenating field two to field
> one, I think AmiBroker either ignores TLSCB, or overwrites TLS with it.
>
> I have made an Excel spreadsheet macro that performs these changes at the
> push of a button, but control internal to AmiBroker would be even better :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
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