John, The attachment referred to in your link is no longer available.
--- In [email protected], John CW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- "david.weilmuenster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The AmiBroker interface to TeleChart does a good job of importing > > TeleChart's Industry info, including mapping stocks to Industries, but > > I'm running into one problem. > > > > With IndustryID(), it's easy to get the consecutive Industry number > > or Industry Name (not Symbol) for a Stock. > > > > But how does one retrieve the Industry Ticker Symbol? > > > > Here is one way to get the industry and sub-industry ... it's not > what I use but it should work assuming you have not changed the > broker.{sectors,industries} and of course you should retrieve the > latest sector/industries assignment once in a while to sync > the AB DB to telechart: > http://www.purebytes.com/archives/amibroker/2007/msg08112.html > > > It doesn't seem to be any variant of IndustryID(). > > > > The code below returns the correct answer in industry_sym, but it > > seems like far too much churning for a simple lookup. > > > > Is there a built-in function that I'm missing? > > > > No, not that I know of. > > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > industry_symlist = > > CategoryGetSymbols(categoryGroup, > > CategoryFind("Industry Group Average", > > categoryGroup > > ) > > ); > > > > stock_industryid = IndustryID(0); > > stop_loop = False; > > > > for( i = 0; > > (NOT stop_loop) AND > > ( sym = StrExtract( industry_symlist, i ) ) != ""; i++ > > ) > > { > > SetForeign(sym); > > if(stock_industryid == IndustryID(0)) > > {industry_sym = sym; > > stop_loop = True; > > } > > RestorePriceArrays(); > > } > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping >
