[amibroker] Re: Testing for new bar using string manipulation and quotation time

["Mike" <sfclimbers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Without commenting on the validity of the approach (I am not a real time trader), I can suggest that your problem is coming from a formatting incompatibility.

Add a format clause indicating zero decimal places and it will work fine.

Note too that your switching back to a number again is redundant and even error prone since "==" is not necessarily exact when dealing with floats. Just use the string manipulation directly.

barTime       = 103731;
barTimeStr    = NumToStr( barTime, 6.0 );

if ( StrRight( barTimeStr, 2 ) == "00" )
    _TRACE ( "New bar found" );

Mike

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ozzyapeman" <zoopfree@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello, hoping someone can help out with this string conversion problem.
> 
> In live trading, I am pulling quotation time using TimeNum(), and want
> to test for the start of a new bar. So my thinking is to simply convert
> the time to a number, extract the last two characters, convert back to a
> number and see if it equals 0. If so, that means the last two digits in
> the quotation time are "00" and hence we are at the start of a new bar.
> 
> However, the sample code below is always thinking we have a new bar
> whether the time is, for e.g.  :
> 
> 10:37:31   or
> 10:37:00
> 
>   Obviously, only the second time should trip the 'new bar' print. But
> instead, both do:
> 
> 
> barTime       = 103731;  // we would normally use TimeNum() here, but
> using a number for example
> 
> barTimeStr    = NumToStr(barTime);
> 
> NewBarSeconds = StrToNum ( StrRight(barTimeStr, 2) );
> 
> printf("NewBarSeconds = " + NewBarSeconds);
> 
> if (NewBarSeconds == 0)
> 
> printf("    We have a new bar");
>




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