MuniBondPayTimes





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Return a range object containing an array of a Municipal Bond's Pay Times.

A Pay time period is the year fraction between the calculation date (ie - today) and the payment date of the coupons.

The Municipal Bond object that is to be queried must have been previously created via either the FixedMuniBond(), FixedMuniBond_y() or FixedMuniBond_p() functions.

These Municipal Bond functions would have returned a string 'KEY' which is to be passed to the 'MuniBondKey' parameter of this function.



Note: Within Excel, the function is named - CT.MUNIBOND.BondPayTimes




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



Parameter Description


  1. MuniBondKey parameter

    Key Handle to an already constructed municipal bond object.
  2. BondIndex parameter

    The Bond index within the Municipal Bond that you wish to extract information from (index starts from 1-based).


Extended information

Function Syntax

VB Syntax


Variant CTMunicipalBonds.MuniBondPayTimes( _
String MuniBondKey, _
Long BondIndex)


Excel Spreadsheet Syntax


=CT.MUNIBOND.BondPayTimes(
Excel String Cell MuniBondKey,
Excel Numeric Cell BondIndex)


C++ Syntax


static CTRangeDataCPP MuniBondPayTimes(
std::string MuniBondKey,
long BondIndex);


DotNET Syntax


CTRangeData CTMunicipalBondsSA.MuniBondPayTimes(
System.String MuniBondKey,
System.Int32 BondIndex);

Parameter data types

ArgNameArgTypeIsKey
MuniBondKeyStringTRUE
BondIndexLongFALSE


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
MuniBondKeyFALSEMuniBondKeyNAME.EXTTAG.TICKER (from a function call)
BondIndexFALSE1


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.Bonds20 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 MuniBondPayTimes() 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 MuniBondPayTimes() function call


Example
NominalDateAdjustedDatePayTimes
38646386460.255556
38828388280.755556
39011390131.26111
39193391951.76111
39376393772.25833



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