Re: Corrected Metastock Coding Question

["BL" <blee7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Roy. - Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Larsen" <rlarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: Corrected Metastock Coding Question


> BL
>
> If I understand you properly then this should work.  If a1 is greater than
> a2 then a3 is equal to (a1-a2), otherwise a3 is equal to zero.
>
> a1:=mov(C,10,S);
> a2:=mov(C,20,S);
> a3:=If(a1>a2,a1-a2,=0);
>
> Roy
>
>
> > I would like to use a conditional IF statement to assign an expression
to
> a
> > variable.  I can calculate a value within the IF statement, but I need
to
> > know how to set the value to a variable name.
> >
> > Example:  This works
> >
> > a1:=mov(C,10,S);
> > a2:=mov(C,20,S);
> > If(a1>a2,a1-a2,0);
> >
> > but I would like to insert a variable, say "a3", into the IF statement,
> > something like this
> >
> > a1:=mov(C,10,S);
> > a2:=mov(C,20,S);
> > If(a1>a2,a3:=a1-a2,a3:=0);
> >
> > which does not work.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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