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Re: Deleting Option tickers from the data base



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Dear Tomasz,
I downloaded the attachment.
Opening the file in AA, I read a single /
Opening the file itself, I have an error
Line 1
Character 2
Expected a ´/´
Code 800A03F4

Am I missing something ?
I want to delete all stocks from group 10.

Best regards
Dimitris Tsokakis 
--- In amibroker@xxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxx> wrote:
> Hello Fred,
> 
> I have prepared a special script for ASX that
> REMOVES all tickers that have the length > 3.
> 
> By default it scans the database and finally gives
> you the number of such tickers and ask if you want to delete them 
ALL or not.
> 
> It can be modifed however to ask for EVERY SINGLE ticker
> - just change AskUser = false line to:
> AskUser = true;
> 
> No need to work manually :-) Just run AmiBroekr and double click on 
the script.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> ===============
> AmiBroker - the comprehensive share manager.
> http://www.amibroker.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "rbf" <rbf@xxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:35 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] Deleting Option tickers from the data base
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > > Q2] My ascii files contain hundreds of six-letter tickers 
denoting
> > > > stock options. How do I prevent them from entering the data 
base at
> > > > all ?
> > 
> > > Currently there is no easy way to prevent them from being 
imported
> > > IF they are all in single ASCII file.
> > > You can create a scan like this:
> > > buy = name()==6;
> > > and move the results to a separate group so you can omit these
> > > tickers during back-testing.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Tomasz Janeczko
> > 
> > Hello Tomasz
> > 
> > I'll pre-process the daily data file to eliminate all tickers of 
length > 3
> > (after renaming CMLC to CM2 and renaming CMLDA to CM1). That 
will fix 'the
> > problem' for future data .
> > (we're talking about a thousand+ bits of rubbish (Options & 
Warrants
> > tickers) whose numbers grow 'daily' unless I stop it from doing 
so !)
> > 
> > Using your scan idea (as corrected :-) ) how do you
> > Q1] MOVE the results from the scan list into a Group (say Group 
200, rather
> > than a Watch List) in 'one operation' ? and then
> > Q2] DELETE from the database all the stocks in that Group in 'one 
operation'
> > ?
> > - given the disk space these unwanted files take up it is better 
to delete
> > them rather than just omit them when back-testing.
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > 
> > Fred Browne
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> >