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Functions

QuickStart Module

This quickstart module provides a tour of the built-in functions and shows you how to create your own.

Built-in Functions​

We provide an ever-expanding list of functions that can be used with the OpenDataDSL language, this section gives a quick tour of the types of functions available.

String functions​

The string functions provide functionality for manipulating and examining strings.

Examples of string functions:

s1 = "My String"

// Get the number of characters in the string
print length(s1)
// >> 9

// Print the string in lower case
print lower(s1)
// >> my string

// Print the string in upper case
print upper(s1)
// >> MY STRING

// Print a version of the string that can be used as an id
print clean(s1)
// >> MY_STRING

// Replace matches in the string
print replace(s1, "My", "Your")
// >> Your String

// Remove characters from the string
print remove(s1, " ")
// >> MyString

// Checks to see if it contains a certain character
print startsWith(s1, "M")
// >> true
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Date functions​

Date functions help you utilise dates.

Date function examples:

// Parse a date using specific formats
print parse("22/10/2021", "dd/MM/yyyy")
// >> 2021-10-22

print parse("2022", "yyyy")
// >> 2022-01-01

// Print a date in a specific format
d1=Date("22/10/2021 06:00", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm")
print format(d1, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss")
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List functions​

List functions are functions that take a list as an input

List function examples:

l1 = [4,8,19]
print min(l1)
// >> 4
print max(l1)
// >> 19
print mean(l1)
// >> 10.333333
print geomean(l1)
// >> 9.471647
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Curve functions​

Curve functions are specifically used for building and analysing forward curves with functions such as:

  • bootstrapCurve - used to create an arbitrage-free monthly curve from a curve with multiple granularities
  • extendCurve - used to extrapolate a curve a number of years
  • shape - used to shape the latter portion of a curve using the shape of the first 12 periods
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Statistical functions​

The statistical functions are generally used to analyse a list or TimeSeries and produce basic descriptive statistics.

An example showing the simpleRegression function:

input = TimeSeries("DAILY")
input.add("2020-11-01", 12.5)
input.add("2020-11-02", 12.8)
input.add("2020-11-03", 12.9)
input.add("2020-11-04", 11.5)
input.add("2020-11-05", 11.9)

reg = simpleRegression(input)

print reg.slope
print reg.slopeStdErr
print reg.slopeConfidenceInterval
print reg.intercept
print reg.interceptStdErr
print reg.meanSquareErr
print reg.N
print reg.R
print reg.regressionSumSquares
print reg.RSquare
print reg.significance
print reg.sumOfCrossProducts
print reg.sumSquaredErrors
print reg.totalSumSquares
print reg.XSumSquares

// Predict the next value
print reg.predict(Date("2020-11-06"))
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Full list of functions​

Follow the link below for documentation on the full list of functions:

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Custom Functions​

You can create your own user defined functions and use them in your code, you can also create a library of functions in a script and import that script into other scripts to use those functions.

An example of a custom function:

function random100()
    random100 = toInt(random()*100 + 1)
end
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