rawtime

[futurenets]

can anyone tell me what's wrong with this code. misses step 5 to get rawtime

//DELL 5 min chart, Time Template 1 day, PC time Zone GMT -8 Pacific Time

var bInit 		= false;

function preMain() 
{
    setPriceStudy(true);
    setShowTitleParameters(false);
    setShowCursorLabel(true);
}

var ssLast = null;
var ssOpen = null;

function main() 
{
    if(getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) 
    {
        var ssSymbol = "SPY";
db("1.ssSymbol",ssSymbol);        
        var chInterval = getInterval();
db("2.chInterval",chInterval)        
        var chIndex = getCurrentBarIndex();
db("3.chIndex",chIndex);        
        ssLast = getValueAbsolute("Close",  chIndex, ssSymbol + "," + chInterval);
db("4.ssLast",ssLast);        
        if(ssOpen == null || getDay(-1) != getDay(0))
        {
            var chOpenRaw = getValue("rawtime",chIndex);
db("5.chOpenRaw",chOpenRaw);            
            var chOpenIndex = getFirstBarIndexOfDay(chOpenRaw);
db("6.openindx",chOpenIndex);       
            if (chOpenIndex != null)
            {            
                ssOpen = getValueAbsolute("Open",  chOpenIndex, ssSymbol + "," + chInterval);
db("7.ssOpen",ssOpen); 
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

function db(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i) 
{
    var str = "[" + String("0"+getMonth()).slice(-2) + "/" + String("0"+getDay()).slice(-2) + " " + String("0"+getHour()).slice(-2) + ":" + String("0"+getMinute()).slice(-2) + "]";
    str += ",";
    if (a != null) str += a;
    str += ",";
    if (b != null) str += b;
    str += ",";
    if (c != null) str += c;
    str += ",";
    if (d != null) str += d;
    str += ",";
    if (e != null) str += e;
    str += ",";
    if (f != null) str += f;
    str += ",";
    if (g != null) str += g;
    str += ",";
    if (h != null) str += h;
    str += ",";
    if (i != null) str += i;
    debugPrintln(str);
    return;
}

[futurenets]

this gets rawtime on first bar

function main() 
{
    if(getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) 
    {
        var ssSymbol = "SPY";
db("1.ssSymbol",ssSymbol);        
        var chInterval = getInterval();
db("2.chInterval",chInterval)        
        var chIndex = getCurrentBarIndex();
db("3.chIndex",chIndex);        
        ssLast = getValueAbsolute("Close",  chIndex, ssSymbol + "," + chInterval);
db("4.ssLast",ssLast);  
        if(ssOpen == null || getDay(-1) != getDay(0))
        {
            var chOpenRaw = rawtime(0); //getValue("rawtime",chIndex);
db("5.chOpenRaw",chOpenRaw);            
            var chOpenIndex = getFirstBarIndexOfDay(chOpenRaw);
db("6.openindx",chOpenIndex);       
            if (chOpenIndex != null)
            {            
                ssOpen = getValueAbsolute("Open",  chOpenIndex, ssSymbol + "," + chInterval);
db("7.ssOpen",ssOpen); 
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

[futurenets]

a better solution ...

function main() 
{
    if(getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) 
    {
        var ssSymbol = "SPY";
db("1.ssSymbol",ssSymbol);        
        var chInterval = getInterval();
db("2.chInterval",chInterval)        
        ssLast = close(0, sym(ssSymbol + "," + chInterval));
db("3.ssLast",ssLast);  
        if(ssOpen == null || getDay(-1) != getDay(0))
        {
            var chOpenRaw = rawtime(0);
db("5.chOpenRaw",chOpenRaw);            
            var ssOpenIndex = getFirstBarIndexOfDay(chOpenRaw,ssSymbol);
db("6.ssOpenIndex",ssOpenIndex);       
            if (ssOpenIndex != null)
            {            
                ssOpen = getValueAbsolute("Open",  ssOpenIndex, ssSymbol + "," + chInterval);
                         //open(ssOpenIndex, sym(ssSymbol + "," + chInterval)); .. doesn't like this
db("7.ssOpen",ssOpen); 
            }
        }
       
    }
    return null;
}

[SteveH]

Paul,

Always declare all global variables at the top of your file before any function declarations.

Always declare all local variables at the top of their respective function declarations (right after the first "{").