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What I found is this. If the company name field was greater than
about 65 characters , it corrupted the database.
Used the Ascii Import wizard for this, but I suspect the lack of
integrity checking for field length is the problem.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lester Vanhoff" <ebsn247lsm@xxx> wrote:
>
> Did you include "$NOQUOTES 1" in your format definition file? I
assume that you are importing only [ticker + company name] and that
all tickers with quotes are already in your database:
>
> # Format definition for a file with ticker
> # and company name only.
> # $NOQUOTES 1 is necessary even if there
> # are no fields with numbers.
> # $AUTOADD 0: prevents creating new data
> # files with no quotes
>
> $FORMAT Ticker,FullName
> $SEPARATOR ,
> $SKIPLINES 1
> $NOQUOTES 1
> $AUTOADD 0
> $OVERWRITE 0
> $DEBUG 1
>
> This will import ASCii file that looks like this (as long as the
ticker with quotes is already in your database):
>
> Ticker, FullName
> ECA=o XR , ECA Dec 46 Put
> ECA=o XQ , ECA Dec 48 Put
> ECA=o XJ , ECA Dec 50 Put
> ECA=o XT , ECA Dec 52 Put
> ECA=o XX , ECA Dec 54 Put
>
> Lester
>
> -- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Homar Simpson" <x77777x@> wrote:
> >
> > I tried updating the Nasdaq symbols with a ticker list containing
> > just symbols and descriptions.
> >
> > They imported but they also corrupt the ALL category, so that only 1
> > symbol shows there.
> >
> > Tried it with a fresh database and also see strangeness there.
> > Version 4.80.
> >
> > What would cause the ALL category to stop working?
> >
>
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