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Allan, to import Aliases make sure that your ASCii Importer's Format Definition File has the following lines:
$AUTOADD 1
$OVERWRITE 1
Lester
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mark Jarvis" <mark.jarvis@xxx> wrote:
>
> I've successfully imported items into the Alias field using the ASCII
> importer. The only issue that I have is that I think the ALIAS field length
> is shorter than the Fullname or name field, so some of the long futures
> symbols for IB wouldn't fit.
>
> On 05/02/07, Lester Vanhoff <ebsn247lsm@xxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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 <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, "Lester
> > Vanhoff" <ebsn247lsm@> wrote:
> > >
> > > For a starter you can try this.
> > >
> > > 1) Look at the code below.
> > >
> > > // Show First N Characters Of The Ticker
> > >
> > > Filter = 1;
> > >
> > > c_1 = StrLen(Name());
> > >
> > > // show last N characters (one-based)
> > > c_2 = StrRight(Name(), 8);
> > >
> > > // show all characters less N (one-based)
> > > c_3 = StrLeft(Name(), c_1 - 8);
> > >
> > > AddColumn (c_1, "Ticker Length");
> > > AddTextColumn(c_2, "Last Chars");
> > > AddTextColumn(c_3, "First Chars, Alias");
> > >
> > > 2) Modify the above code to keep only the columns that you need, for
> > example Ticker, Date and your new Alias column.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > http://www.amibroker.com/guide/d_ascii.html
> > >
> > > Lester
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, "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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