I realize that Herman and others suggested include files and static
variables as ways to assign differing constant values depending on the
symbol being processed.  I am about to turn there, but can I ask again if
anyone has a comment or suggestion about the simple vbscript code below and
my problem in getting it to perform as intended.  
 
These few lines seem, to me, to be FAR more simple than any loop
construction with naming conventions to assign several simple values to
constant variables dependent on the symbol name.
 
Please take a look and offer a comment.  I understand that not many may know
the vbscript syntax and thus cannot comment, but some of you out there know
it.
 
thanks.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ken Close
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 2:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [amibroker] Vbscript in AFL worked in 2002, not now


I used this code in 2002 successfully (on whatever version of AB was running
then).
 
Today I stuck it in some code and while it did not produce an error, it
seems not to recognize the change in symbols.
 
An explore after these lines shows that all symbols have the same BuyLevel =
174 and SellLevel = 80 saying that the Select command "fell through" to the
"else" part even thou the watchlist contained only the five ETF symbols
listed in the case statements.
 
Can anyone spot what might be wrong or missing?
 
What is the modern day way of doing this?  I tried IF statements (not IIF)
and only the last IF statement was operative, ie, only the last IF
corresponding to the last symbol in the watchlist was operative.  The modern
way will be more complex loops, yes?  The Case statements below seem pretty
simple if I could get them to work.
 
Thanks.
 
 
EnableScript("vbscript");
<%
'BSSC Codes: 1 = Buy/Sell 2 = Short/Cover 3 = Both / SL = Stop Loss
percentage
Stock = AFL("ticker") : BuyLevel = 0 : SellLevel = 0
Select case Stock 
    case "DIA" BuyLevel = 194 : SellLevel = 130 
    case "SPY" BuyLevel = 190 : SellLevel = 130 
    case "IWM" BuyLevel = 176 : SellLevel = 73 
    case "QQQQ" BuyLevel = 192 : SellLevel = 146 
    case "XLE" BuyLevel = 189 : SellLevel = 117 
    case else BuyLevel = 174: SellLevel = 80
End Select
 
AFL("BuyLevel") = BuyLevel
AFL("SellLevel") = SellLevel
 
%> 
 
 

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