FXObjType





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Returns the type of FX object.

Whether the object is chained (derived, 3 currencies involved) or direct (2 currencies involved).

The FX object that this function will be based on must have been previously created via one of the following functions : CreateFX() or CreateFXChain(). These functions would have returned a string 'KEY' which is to be passed to the 'FXKey' parameter within this function.



Note: Within Excel, the function is named - CT.FX.FXObjType




High level graphic of FXObjType() function with parameters. Blue square node is the actual function with the parameters ordered.



Parameter Description


  1. FXKey parameter

    Key to an already constructed FX (exchange rate) object.


Extended information

Function Syntax

VB Syntax


String CTCurrency.FXObjType( _
String FXKey)


Excel Spreadsheet Syntax


=CT.FX.FXObjType(
Excel String Cell FXKey)


C++ Syntax


static std::string FXObjType(
std::string FXKey);


DotNET Syntax


System.String CTCurrencySA.FXObjType(
System.String FXKey);

Parameter data types

ArgNameArgTypeIsKey
FXKeyStringTRUE


Example Inputs

The first column represents the name of the parameters. The second column specifies whether the parameters are optional or not. Finally the last column provides some sample input data.
Function call input string-keys are always in the format : "NAME.EXTTAG.TICKER" The "EXTTAG.TICKER" part is determined from the output of other, capetools, object creation functions.


ArgNameIsOptional (Excel only)Example
FXKeyFALSEFXKeyNAME.EXTTAG.TICKER (from a function call)


Example function usage


The C# example below contains all the sub-function calls leading up to this function call. As a result, the example can contain a lot of code.

The VB.NET, J#, C++.NET, Java, Excel VBA, Visual Basic 6 (via COM) and C++ examples below contain function code stubs for the calls leading up to this function call. However, the function call for this function is displayed.
You can easily reproduce the stub functions code from the C# example.


If you are accessing this functrion via the MiniXL libraries, this function is present within the CT.QL.Curves20 MiniXL Excel Addin.

Within our Excel Example Addin Generator, we have used the following QuantTools sub-functions in order to prepare the arguments needed to call the FXObjType() function. If you are executing this function via the MiniXL libraries, the module addin name, (in brackets, to the right of the sub-functions listed below), indicates the MiniXL library in which the sub-function is held. You will need to load this library into your Excel session (along with any other libraries that the sub-function call within the addin requires (ie - CT.QT.Utils20 addin in almost all cases) in order for the example to compute successfully.

These are the financial QuantTools sub-function calls that are used within the examples :





The objects generated by these sub-functions are inter-connected in the following way :




The following four examples demostrate calling this function within a Microsoft .NET environment

The following four examples demostrate calling this function within a non .NET environment

The following is a sample output from executing the FXObjType() function call


Direct

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