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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "William Peters"
<williampeters@xxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't believe the AFL has a function that returns the number of
elements
> in an array.
William,
AFL would be a miserable and unproductive language without counting
the elements of an array !! [I am curious if there exist any T/A
language without this property...]. I didn't understand your reply.
Dimitris Tsokakis
> If you are constructing your own arrays as opposed to using the
stock arrays
> I would simply maintain the element count within a variable.
> As stated in the first post when you refer to elements in the stock
arrays
> the first bar is 0 and the last bar is Barcount -1 (these arrays
are zero
> based).
> Regards,
> William Peters
> www.amitools.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Merrill [mailto:dmerrill@x...]
> Sent: October 25, 2003 1:02 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [amibroker] size of an array in AFL?
>
>
> in most languages, it's possible to find out the size of an array
directly,
> by examining some property of the array itself or applying some
function to
> it, without having to know how it was created. some examples are:
>
> array.length
> array.size
> SizeOfArray(array)
>
> is that possible in AFL? if not, it can be worked around since we
do in
> general know how every array was created, but it's less elegant and
less
> self contained.
>
> dave
>
> I'm not sure how to answer this because it depends on which array
you are
> refering too.
>
> Are you refering to a stock data array of some description? If so
you
> could use the Barcount constant which will return the number of
bars in the
> array. Remember it's zero based so the last bar is refered to as:
Barcount -
> 1
>
> Regards,
> William Peters
> www.amitools.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Merrill [mailto:dmerrill@x...]
>
>
> sorry for the dumb question, but what's the syntax for getting
the size
> (number of elements) in an array? I want to do something like
this, only
> that works:
>
> for(i=1; i<=array.length; i++) {
>
> thanks,
>
> dave
>
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