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Dennis:
  is an HTML formatting character. It creates a space without a
line feed character. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space
Thanks,
Jim
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dennis Brown <see3d@xxx> wrote:
>
> Joseph,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I will let it percolate on my brain a
> bit. Of course, if it gets to cryptic, it defeats the purpose.
>
> The &nb! sp; in the example is not my doing. That is something thrown
> in by Yahoo or a mail program. I think it is some BB or HTML
> formatting for a ! which is also not my doing. I see that these
> errors are creeping in with each successive reply, but not the original.
>
> I see the odd space and formatting error now and then show up in
> replies.
>
> BR,
> Dennis
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:33 AM, J. Biran wrote:
>
> > I think this strongly depends on individual taste and has no
> > absolute correct answer.
> >
> > The returned values is of significant importance and is good it
> > stands out. It could also be placed right before the AB version info.
> >
> > You could also borrow from the convention that units of measure are
> > placed in square brackets (i.e. [sec]) and use [n] or [s], [b],
> > [A(n)], [A(b)], [A(s)] etc? (A = Array).
> >
> > I just noticed &nb! sp in your example below. Was it there
> > before? Is this some formatting info? Also what is the ! for?
> >
> >
> > Joseph Biran
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Dennis Brown
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:12 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] AmiBroker AFL Glossary project --LIFT OFF
> >
> > Joseph,
> >
> > I see your point. I just made up some conventions to test it out.
> > It could be formatted any number of ways. In fact I am busy writing
> > the sorting and filtering routines. Let me know if you have a good
> > idea for an alternative way to format the output and I can throw
> > that in at the same time.
> >
> > Another one is I have "a" for array "a|n" for array or number, and
> > "b" for boolean. It occurs to me the I should also have "a|b" for a
> > boolean array or a boolean number. that would also be the result
> > type for things like comparison operators. Operators will be
> > another whole class of formats in the template.
> >
> > As we expand the glossary to more than just functions, I am sure
> > additional considerations will have to be made in the database
> > template and report generation formats to accommodate these. In
> > some construct it is a statement that is the parameter like in a
> > for(initialStatement; booleanExit; loopStatement){}.
> >
> > These will take some additional thought. We need to fill in all the
> > AFL functions though, and that will take a little while and is
> > actually the easy part because we have the AB functions list to get
> > us started.
> >
> > BR,
> > Dennis
> >
> > On Sep 23, 2008, at 8:32 PM, J. Biran wrote:
> >
> >
> > The = threw me off.
> >
> > Also, distinguishing array from number would be beneficial.
> >
> >
> > Joseph Biran
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Dennis Brown
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:57 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] AmiBroker AFL Glossary project --LIFT OFF
> >
> > Joseph,
> >
> > Good question. I had selected a parameter to show return value
> > types in the sample output. The n is a number type returned by the
> > function. Other types are: s is a string, a is an ar! ray, b i s
> > Boolean number (True/False) etc., as shown in the template. I could
> > have selected to output a descriptive name instead, or nothing.
> > There are a number of variations on a basic theme.
> >
> > BR,
> > Dennis
> >
> > On Sep 23, 2008, at 6:09 PM, J. Biran wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > What is the n = stand for?
> >
> >
> >
> > Joseph Biran
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Dennis Brown
> > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:27 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] AmiBroker AFL Glossary project --LIFT OFF
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have uploaded to the AFL Library a program called
> > AF_Glossary_Generator (yes a typo in the name) that takes another
> > file uploaded called AFL_Glossary_1 and generates parameter
> > selectable formatted TXT or RTF files for this project. It took me
> > a couple of hours to make a database file for all the string
> > manipulation functions, and forever to make the program that spit
> > out formatted documents. Creating the files for both forced me to
> > refine the database specification a bit further.
> >
> > < /div>
> > Please download them both and try them out. You have to create a
> > directory called AFL_Glossary in your main AmiBroker folder and put
> > the file named AFL_Glossary_1.txt into it. Rename the file to strip
> > off the .afl and make sure it ends in .txt. The output files will
> > be written to the same folder. On a PC, the .txt and .rtf files
> > read fine in WordPad, but the links don't work in that program.
> > They do work in Word. In the Mac, all formats w! ork fine in
> > TextEdit program.
> >
> > Please download the program and data and give me some feedback.
> > Sorry there are not a lot of instructions, but you just select
> > parameters, and click on the Convert Database button to get
> > something written out. You can try out all kinds of different
> > formats.
> >
> > Next, we need volunteers to write small sections of the database to
> > make headway. If you make another file called AFL_Glossary_2.txt,
> > etc., it w! ill comb ine them into one database for outputs.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dennis
> >
> > PS. here is a sample of one possible output:
> >
> >
> >
> > AFL -- AmiBroker Formula Language
> > -- Abbreviation for AmiBroker
> > Formula Language
> > -- Group Tags: AFL
> > -- See Also: AmiBroker
> > Formula Language
> >
> > n = &nb! sp; ; Asc( String, CharacterPosition=0 ) [AB 4.8]
> > -- get ASCII code of character
> > -- Returns the ASCII code number for
> > a text character
> > -- Group Tags:
> > AFL,Functions,String manipulation,Type Conversions
> > -- Search Tags:
> > ASCII,character,convert,code
> > -- Links: ASCII Defined ASCI I
> > Table
> >
> > n = StrToDateTime( DateTimeText ) [AB 4.8] -- convert
> > string to datetime
> > -- Returns datetime number from a
> > text representation of the Date/Time
> > -- Group Tags:
> > AFL,Functions,String manipulation,Type Conversions,Date and Time
> > ! -- Search Tags:
> > datetime,date,time,convert
> > -- See Also:
> > DateTimeToStr(),Now(),DateTime(),TimeNum(),Date()
> >
> > The rtf file of the whole sample output is also attached here for
> > those who get individual emails:
> >
> >
>
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