Learning SWITCH / CASE

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Learning SWITCH / CASE

Postby TJ » 31 Jul 2008

I want to Learn how to use SWITCH / CASE.

I am looking for programming examples,

Do you know of any strategy or indicator that uses these keywords?

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Postby khalaad » 01 Aug 2008

TJ,

Please find a simple example of SWITCH here:

http://www.tssupport.com/support/base/? ... le&id=1129

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Postby TJ » 01 Aug 2008

This is great!
Many thanks for the link.

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Postby ABC » 01 Aug 2008

TJ,
I have done a simple switch/case thing inside an indicator that I run on the very first bar to identify the BarType and Store a name inside a variable for further use:

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Switch(BarType_ex) begin
Case 1: BarTyp = "Ticks";
Case 2: BarTyp = "Minutes";
Case 3: BarTyp = "Hours";
Case 4: BarTyp = "Days";
Case 5: BarTyp = "Weeks";
Case 6: BarTyp = "Months";
Case 7: BarTyp = "Years";
Case 8: BarTyp = "Volume";
Case 9: BarTyp = "Seconds";
Case 10: BarTyp = "Quarters";
Case 11: BarTyp = "Points";
Case 12: BarTyp = "Change";
Case 13: BarTyp = "Points (original)";
Default: BarTyp = "";
end;
BarType_ex will return numeric values from 1 to 13, so each return value is assigned to a Case. The last thing is a default value that will be used if none of the Switch Values will match a Case value.

Hope this helps.

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Postby TJ » 01 Aug 2008

ABC:

This is more than an example, this is useful code.
Thanks.

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Postby ABC » 01 Aug 2008

TJ,
I am happy if I could help a bit and even more if you can put the code piece to some use for yourself.

Switch must not necessarily have continuous values from 0 to X, this would also be okay:

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Switch(Value1)
Begin
Case 1 to 5:
Value2 = Value2 + 1;

Case 10, 20, 30:

Value3 = Highest(High,10);

Case is > 40:

Value3 = Value3 + 1;

Default:
Value5 = Value5 + 1;
End;

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