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Yes you can do that using static variables (store last date/time of alert and don't display again if match is found):

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:07 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Writing "alert" file

It's appending to the file now. Thanks for everyone's help!

Next issue: the alertif function automatically supresses duplicate
alerts. Is there a simple way to mimic that in my append-to-file
routine?

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mark & Jean Petereit"
<petereits@xxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who caught the \\. Extra credit to Terry for seeing
the
> Buy=True error! ;-)
>
> Mark
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Terry" <MagicTH@> wrote:
> >
> > You have made an error in this line
> >     if (Buy=True)
> > The above does not test to see if Buy is True, but FORCES Buy to
be
> > True. Do this instead:
> >     if (Buy == True)
> > or simply:
> >     if (Buy)
> > Doing this now brings up an error that you can't use arrays in if
()
> > statement so you must change it to:
> >     if (LastValue(Buy))
> > Of course the above code must come AFTER your Buy = statement.
> >
> > Finally you need to use \\ in filenames.
> >     fh = fopen( "C:\/alerts.csv", "a");
> > --
> > Terry
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> > Behalf Of Mark & Jean Petereit
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 05:13
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [amibroker] Re: Writing "alert" file
> >
> > Yes, I understand that. What I'm not sure of is exactly where to
> > place the code in my AFL or how to trigger it. I currently have
> > something similar to the following, but it's not giving me the
> > desired results:
> >
> > // Begin Code Snippet
> > AlertIf( Buy, "", "Alert: "+Name(), 1 );
> > if (Buy=True)
> > {
> >       fh = fopen( "C:\alerts.csv", "a");
> >       if( fh )
> >       {
> >             fputs( Name()+","+DateTime()
> > +","+Close+","+High+"\n", fh );
> >             fclose(fh);
> >       }
> >       else
> >       {
> >             printf("Error opening file");
> >       }
> > }
> > // End Code Snippet
> >
> > The alerts are showing up in Amibroker's alert window just fine.
> But
> > the alerts.csv file is never being appended.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ara Kaloustian" <ara1@> wrote:
> > >
> > > if you open the file with an "a" instead of "w", AFL will
append
> > file
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mark & Jean Petereit" <petereits@>
> > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 7:49 PM
> > > Subject: [amibroker] Writing "alert" file
> > >
> > >
> > > > I know how to use fopen, fputs, fclose. But is there any
trick
> to
> > > > programming AFL to append a line to a text file for every
Alert
> > that
> > > > is triggered?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Please note that this group is for discussion between users
> only.
> > > >
> > > > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly
to
> > > > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com
> > > >
> > > > For other support material please check also:
> > > > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Please note that this group is for discussion between users only.
> >
> > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to
> > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com
> >
> > For other support material please check also:
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> >
> > 
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> >
>







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