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I remember that in earlier versions of AB there were some problems with ASCii Importer and Alias field. I think you needed Close in your data file: Ticker, Date, Alias, Close. I'm not sure if this has been fixed.
Lester
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lester Vanhoff" <ebsn247lsm@xxx> wrote:
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> For a starter you can try this.
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> 1) Look at the code below.
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> // Show First N Characters Of The Ticker
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> Filter = 1;
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> c_1 = StrLen(Name());
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> // show last N characters (one-based)
> c_2 = StrRight(Name(), 8);
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> // show all characters less N (one-based)
> c_3 = StrLeft(Name(), c_1 - 8);
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> AddColumn (c_1, "Ticker Length");
> AddTextColumn(c_2, "Last Chars");
> AddTextColumn(c_3, "First Chars, Alias");
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> 2) Modify the above code to keep only the columns that you need, for example Ticker, Date and your new Alias column.
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> 3) In Automatic Analysis set the Date Range to Last N Days = 1 and run Exploration, then click Export to save the results to a CSV file.
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> 4) Use ASCii Importer to import data from the CSV file back to AB. Make sure that you have at least two fields included in Import Definition File: Ticker and Alias.
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> http://www.amibroker.com/guide/d_ascii.html
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> Lester
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Allan" <allanbradl@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys ! Iam looking for a way to write all the ticker names from
> > my database in to the "Alias" field in Information tab (I understand it
> > means to assighn Alias to the ticker ) Iam using IB format ,
> > TICKERNAME-STK-NXY or TICKERNAME-STK-TSE etc. so in this case I would
> > want to take "TICKERNAME" of all the symbols and write it as an Alias
> > without "-STK-TSE" part. Would appreciate any help.
> >
>
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