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Re: [amibroker] Re: How does Date() return the date ?



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Salil,

If you read the documentation on FOREIGN
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?name=FOREIGN

you would learn that FOREIGN function SYNCHRONIZES all bars / dates.

The date of each bar is always given by DateNum() and Foreign symbols
always match current security.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "salil_gangal" <salil_gangal@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:41 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: How does Date() return the date ?


> Tomasz,
> 
> Hmm ... 
> 
> That does pose an interesting problem when one is dealing securities 
> via Foreign(), as none of the values in Foreign are *actually* 
> selected.
> 
> So perhaps let me re-state the problem. As before I have 3 securities 
> with different lengths of data and I'm accessing all of them with 
> Foreign().  What is the way that I can know which data element is 
> associated with which date ?  (In other words, LastValue() for first 
> security is for date August 5th, for second it is for date August 8th 
> and third it is for date August 13th.  How can know these dates in 
> AFL script ?)
> 
> Regards,
> - Salil V Gangal
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Salil,
> > 
> > Date() returns string representing "selected" value of currently 
> selected symbol
> > See http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?
> name=SELECTEDVALUE
> > 
> > for description of what 'selected' value means.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Tomasz Janeczko
> > amibroker.com
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "salil_gangal" <salil_gangal@xxxx>
> > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:10 AM
> > Subject: [amibroker] How does Date() return the date ?
> > 
> > 
> > > Friends,
> > > 
> > > ( Sure ... sure ... Date() returns a string which contains the 
> date 
> > > in the particular locale format.)  However, my questions is how 
> > > exactly does Date() determine what to return ?
> > > 
> > > Say if I have only 3 securities in database, one of them that has 
> > > data from beninning of year thru August 5th, second from 
> beginning of 
> > > year thru August 8th and third from beginning of year thru August 
> > > 13th.  Then what is returned by Date() in such a database and 
> why ?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > - Salil V Gangal
> > > 
> > > 
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