Characters used in Symbol name

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So far I have found the following characters used to form Symbol or Instrument names:

#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789._abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

are there any others?

Thanking you all in advance.

 

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may i know y u need it

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I have completed Symbols() function which stores in an array all Symbols and Instruments used by the Broker's Server. I have tested it on 3 Broker's, i heard there were 200? Thank you qjol and Ais. You will be able to download it when it is published.
 

Use something like that: 


/**
* Get the list of symbols available on this platform.
* The function will resize and fill the supplied array with
* the symbol names and return the number of symbols.
*/
int getSymbols(string &sym[]){
   int i;
   string symbol;
   int f = FileOpenHistory("symbols.raw", FILE_BIN | FILE_READ);
   int count = FileSize(f) / 1936;
   ArrayResize(sym, count);
   for (i=0; i<count; i++){ 
      symbol = FileReadString(f, 12);
      sym[i] = symbol;
      FileSeek(f, 1924, SEEK_CUR);
   }
   FileClose(f);
   return(count);
}

use it like this: 


int sym_count;
string sym[];

int init(){
   int i;
   sym_count = getSymbols(sym);
   
   for (i=0; i<sym_count; i++){
      Print(i + " " + sym[i]);  
   }
}
 

7bit, i was just off to bed, u made my day, thank you so much,

i did not really want to release my function in case one broker

used some character that i had not catered for,

thank you once again

 
hi bernd, i did not recognise your pseudonym, how is my trading partner from IRC forex Chat? take care my friend.
 

i cant understand what it is this all about

simple use \\meta_trader_folder/history/your_proker/symbols.raw

as u can c here

https://www.mql5.com/en/code/9102

& u have all the symbols from your broker

 
qjol, thank you very much for the codebase reference.
 
qjol:

i cant understand what it is this all about

simple use \\meta_trader_folder/history/your_proker/symbols.raw

You are a bit late. My posting already did exactly this. No need to do the whole dance with header and lib and everything for a simple 5-liner.
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