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fieldinfo

Field information forBloombergconnection V3

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Syntax

d = fieldinfo(c,f)

Description

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d= fieldinfo(c,f)returns field information on the Bloomberg®V3 connection objectcgiven the field mnemonicf.

Examples

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Create a Bloomberg® connection, and then retrieve information for 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, thefieldinfofunction returns data as a cell array.

c.DataReturnFormat ='table';

Retrieve the Bloomberg field information for theLAST_PRICEfield.

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

Display the last four columns in the returned Bloomberg information.

d(:,2:5)
ans = 1×4 table ID MNEMONIC DESCRIPTION DATATYPE _______ ____________ _______________________ ________ 'RQ005' 'LAST_PRICE' 'Last Trade/Last Price' 'Double'

The columns indare:

  • Field identifier

  • Field mnemonic

  • Field name

  • Field data type

You can also access the Bloomberg help information in the first column.

Close the Bloomberg connection.

close(c)

Input Arguments

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

Field mnemonic, specified as a character vector or string scalar that denotes the Bloomberg field information to retrieve.

Data Types:char|string

Output Arguments

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Field information, returned as an N-by-5 cell array, a structure, or a table.

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

  • Field help

  • Field identifier

  • Field mnemonic

  • Field name

  • Field data type

The data type of the field information depends on theDataReturnFormatproperty of the connection object.

更小ion History

Introduced in R2010b

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