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Field category search forBloombergconnection V3

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Syntax

d = category(c,f)

Description

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d= category(c,f)returns category information given the search termf.

Examples

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Create a Bloomberg® connection, and then request the category description of the last price field.

Create the Bloomberg connection.

c = blp;

Alternatively, you can connect to the Bloomberg Server usingblpsrvor Bloomberg B-PIPE® usingbpipe.

Return data as a table by setting theDataReturnFormatproperty of the connection object. If you do not set this property, thecategoryfunction returns data as a cell array.

c.DataReturnFormat ='table';

Request the Bloomberg category description of the last price field.

f ='LAST_PRICE'; d = category(c,f);

Display the first three rows of the Bloomberg category description data ind.

d(1:3,:)
ans = 3×5 table CATEGORY ID MNEMONIC DESCRIPTION DATATYPE __________ _______ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________ 'Analysis' 'OP179' 'THETA_LAST' 'Theta Last Price' 'Double' 'Analysis' 'VM048' 'DDMX_PERCENT_CHANGE_LAST_PRICE' 'DDMX Percent Change Last Price' 'Double' 'Analysis' 'YL005' 'YLD_CNV_LAST' 'Last Yield To Convention' 'Double'

The columns indare:

  • Category

  • Field identifier

  • Field mnemonic

  • Field name

  • Field data type

Close the Bloomberg connection.

close(c)

Input Arguments

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Bloomberg connection, specified as a connection object created usingblp,blpsrv, orbpipe.

搜索词, specified as a character vector or string scalar to denote Bloomberg fields.

Data Types:char|string

Output Arguments

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Category data, returned as an N-by-5 cell array, a structure, or a table.

The columns (or fields) of the data types are:

  • Category

  • Field identifier

  • Field mnemonic

  • Field name

  • Field data type

The data type of the category data depends on theDataReturnFormatproperty of the connection object.

Version History

Introduced in R2010b

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