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cobalt_cannon wrote:
> Not sure how much any of you are into programming
> but I'm hoping you can answer this question or point me in the right
> direction where I can get assistance.
>
> I have done a lot of computer programming and am familiar with quite
> a few languages and have been delving into the Metastock Language.
> Maybe I'm missing the obvious but I don't seem to be able to find
> any loop functions.
> In all other languages I've been involved with you have a least a few
> different types of loops.
>
> I have found the "ref" function that allow you to reference a period
> prior to the current one (say 1 day ago, or 10 days ago) but I'm
> after loop
> functions.
>
> For example if I want to write a function that accepts dynamic input
> from the user and go through data for the past 10 days I want to
> write a loop that traverse the data backwards one day at a time and
> performs calculations
> on that data.
>
> So in English the function would do the following:
>
> Prompt user for number of days to traverse.
> User inputs the number 10 and this is assigned to a
> variable "num_days".
> Define a variable "counter" and initialise it to 1.
> while "counter" <= "num_days" do the following:
> get price data for day that is "counter" number of days prior to
> today.
> do whatever you want with this data .. bla bla bla
> "counter" gets incremented by 1 and go back up to "while"
> statement
> end of loop
>
> So, the above code would traverse through the data for the number of
> days the user has entered and then exit when the loop test fails.
>
> If you are into programming a little you'll know what I mean and if
> not then I hope I've explained things well enough.
>
> Is there another plug-in that enables these types of features or do
> they have to be done outside of Metstock via dll's or do I need to
> get an add-on program or have I just missed how this is done
> altogether.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> CC
>
>
>
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