RE: How to get the time or symbol in a .txt print file name or file append file name.

["drwar" <drwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John
As long as it's a pre-defined variable string, Multicharts will accept it,
Tradestation will not. There are alternatives If I remember correctly "EL
Collections" has some print to file functions that will work in both MC and
TS and accept variable strings. 

J~

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bowles [mailto:johnbowles@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 12:44 PM
To: Omega-List
Subject: How to get the time or symbol in a .txt print file name or file
append file name.

Hi,

A friend has both MultiCharts and TradeStation and he runs them on the 
same computer. I am writing an EL script for him and it writes out to a 
.txt file. I use MC which  can take take variables in the print 
statement as I show below but according to my friend when he tries to 
compile this on TradeStation he gets compile errors. It seems real 
strange that TS can't take variables in its print statement file name. 
Is there a solution to this? How about the FileAppend statement? Can it 
do this? I want current time so I can stop the output in both programs 
and restart it again with a new file name for fresh output.

Thanks,
John.



    Path = "C:\ALog_Whatever_" + BarType + BarSize + MySym + CurrentTime;
    PathForStats = Path + "_Stats.txt";
    PathForDetail = Path + "_Detail.txt";
    PathForRaw = Path + "_Raw.txt";


            Print( File(PathForStats),
                  " Whatever.");