category
Field category search for Bloomberg connection V3
Syntax
Description
Examples
Search for Bloomberg Last Price Field
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 using blpsrv
or Bloomberg B-PIPE® using bpipe
.
Return data as a table by setting the DataReturnFormat
property of the connection object. If you do not set this property, the category
function 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 in d
.
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 in d
are:
Category
Field identifier
Field mnemonic
Field name
Field data type
Close the Bloomberg connection.
close(c)
Input Arguments
f
— Search term
character vector | string scalar
Search term, specified as a character vector or string scalar to denote Bloomberg fields.
Data Types: char
| string
Output Arguments
d
— Category data
cell array (default) | structure | table
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 the DataReturnFormat property of the connection object.
Version History
Introduced in R2010b
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