Re: [amibroker] Re: How to convert a string to non-string characters?!Yes I can
see the same but surprisingly duplicates apparently arrive only
by e-mail, and don't appear on the web
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Will need to put sender onto "Moderated" queue, maybe it will help stopping the
loop.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Herman
To: Barry Scarborough
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: How to convert a string to non-string
characters?!
Is everybody getting this same email about twenty times? They are still
coming in... but less frequently.
or is this a problem at my end?
h
Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 7:42:31 PM, you wrote:
> It isn't impossible, just akward. I would try to find another way.
> StrToNum will convert the number up to the first non-number, the
> character + in your case. That is why you get 3 instead of 12.
> 3 + 4 + 5 is not a number and strToNum is not smart enough to add the
> numbers. When it gets to the + it quits and returns 3.
> To sum numbers in a string you have to parse the string to extract
> the numbers. This will extract the numbers from the string and sum
> them. The printf lines show what is being done along the way.
> VarSetText("Condition1", "3 + 4 + 5");
>
> aStr = VarGetText("Condition1");
> a = aStr;
> Offset = StrFind(aStr, "+") +1;
> Len = StrLen(aStr);
> b = StrMid(aStr, Offset, Len);
> Offset = StrFind(b, "+") +1;
> Len = StrLen(b);
> d = StrMid(b, Offset, Len);
> // this shows the output of the parser
> // at this point a, b and d are strings, not numbers.
> printf("a= " + a + ", b= " + b + ", d= " + d);
> // strToNum returns the number up to first text character
> x = StrToNum(a); // x = 3
> y = StrToNum(b); // y = 4
> z = StrToNum(d); // z = 5
> // now you can sum the numbers
> printf("\nTotal =" + NumToStr(x+y+z, 1));
> Of course if you have an alphanumeric string, such as "Sum 3 plus 4
> and then add 5.", the parsing it will get very difficult but it can
> be done.
> Barry
> --- In [email protected], "ozzyapeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If it is just plain impossible to convert strings to actual values
>> (other than plain numbers), perhaps my DLL plugin needs to spit
> work in
>> a different way?
>> This is the type of thing I am trying to achieve - to cycle through
>> thousands of conditions like:
>> Condition1 = MA(C, 12) > C5 AND MA(C,20) < Close;
>> Condition2 = EMA(L,4) > C3 OR MA(H,7) > Close;
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> Condition2555 = MA(H, 50) < C12 AND EMA(L, 12) < Close;
>> Setting the left sides of the above expressions is easy, using
> dynamic
>> variables.
>> But my DLL spits out the right sides of the above expressions, but
> only
>> as strings. So instead of the DLL returning strings, how else could
> it
>> interface with AmiBroker so that the dynamic assignments above are
>> created in the AFL?
>> --- In [email protected], "ozzyapeman" <zoopfree@> wrote:
>> >
>> > Or to take a more trivial example, the following prints "3"
> instead of
>> > "12":
>> >
>> > VarSetText("Condition1", "3 + 4 + 5");
>> >
>> > Total = StrToNum (VarGetText("Condition1"));
>> >
>> > printf ("Sum %g", Total);
>> >
>> > How do I convert the above string so that Total is equal to the
>> > expression itself, which is equal to 12?
>> >
>> >
>> > --- In [email protected], "ozzyapeman" zoopfree@ wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Yes, tried that. But since the values spit out by the function
>> aren't
>> > > just pure numbers, it does not seem to work.
>> > >
>> >
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