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Re: [amibroker] Q: same AFL working with different DBs ?



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Hi,

Example, hope this helps.


DB = GetDatabaseName();
RUT = "";

if (DB == "Yahoo" ) {
        RUT = "^RUT";
}
else if ( DB == "TC2K" ) {
        RUT = "RUT-X";
}

Plot( Foreign( RUT, "C" ), "", colorGreen );



Regards,
William Peters (AmiBroker Group Moderator)
www.amitools.com




Sunday, December 19, 2004, 7:49:19 PM, you wrote:
  
d>  Usually different databases (DBs) have different tickers for the 
d>  same index.
d>  For instance, Yahoo has ^RUT, TC2000 for funds RUT-X for Russell 
d>  2000.
d>  I would like to have an AFL picking up whatever ticker is available
d>  irrespective of the DB loaded, since I do not want a separate AFL 
d>  for each DB.

d>  I was not successful. The following AFL does pick ^RUT from Yahoo 
d>  (native AB US-stocks DB),
d>  but does not pick RUT-X from TC2kF. If I were to switch the order of
d>  ckecking for
d>  the available ticker, it would pick that RUT-X if TC2kF is loaded,
d>  but won't pick ^RUT
d>  if load Yahoo DB.

d>  RUT =       IIf( NOT IsNull( Foreign("^RUT","C") ) ,  Foreign
d>  ("^RUT","C"),                   //Yahoo
d>                    IIf( NOT IsNull( Foreign("RUT-X","C")) ,  
d>  Foreign("RUT-X","C"), Null));   // TC2K Funds

d>  Any suggestions for getting around this problem would be appreciated.
d>  -Alex

    
  



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