Hi,

I’ve searched around manuals and this forum, and I fail to find an answer. Not finding how to do it, neither finding a confirmation that it’s not possible. So I turn to all you guys here for help.

Is there a way to get a variable to hold a text string?

I wrapped up some very simple example code. (just a sample to visualize my question, not an idea for a good scanner 😉

With the bellow scanner, I would get a column in the proscreener window with the name “Bull or Bear”, and in the column the number 1 or 2 would show.

Is there a way to get the variable “varBullOrBear” to hold a text string instead? I many other programming scenarios I would use varBullOrBear = “Bull”, and so forth, but it doesn’t seem to work in this language.

I would like to display text info in the column in Proscreener instead of a number. Is it possible, if so, how?

thanks in advance

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condition1 = Average[100](close) > Average[200](close)
condition2 = Average[100](close) < Average[200](close)

if condition1 then
varBullOrBear = 1
endif

if condition2 then
varBullOrBear = 2
endif

screener [condition1 or condition2] (varBullOrBear as “Bull or Bear”)