Custom Variable is Not Working Inside Else If Nested Statement

AFL Programming
1

I want to Calculate, Current Bar Low, how many bars away from LATEST Lowest Low (Look Back Period is 6 Period excluding Current Bar = Total bars 7)

For this purpose I am using the function called

LLV = Lowest Low Value

It works fine in most cases, but it failed to work in those cases, when two or more lows are with same value.

I am giving the example below, when it works good and when its not

Example 1 (Working Good)

Left to Right

Low (6 Bar Back) 325

Low (5 Bar Back) 327

Low (4 Bar Back) 328

Low (3 Bar Back) 329

Low (2 Bar Back) 330

Low (1 Bar Back) 331

Low ((Current Bar) 332

Expected output : 6

Actual output : 6

Example 2 (Working Wrongly)

Left to Right

Low (6 Bar Back) 335

Low (5 Bar Back) 327

Low (4 Bar Back) 328

Low (3 Bar Back) 327

Low (2 Bar Back) 330

Low (1 Bar Back) 331

Low ((Current Bar) 332

Expected output : 3

Actual output : 5

The low of 327 which has been same in 5 bars back and also in 3 bars back.

LLV function takes into account, the 5 bars back value low (327) (Oldest Lowest Low, but bars since LATEST lowest low)

but the LATEST low is occurred in 3 bars back (low is same 327)

To resolve this, I tried to use the nested If else statement since there is no else if statement.

but for comparing custom variable, it doesn't supports and no output is not appearing

here is my codes, for the doing the above tasks

//For finding Lowest low for previous 6 bars

PCL6 = LLV(Ref(L,-1),6);


//Nested If else section


if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,0))
{
 xyz=0;
 }
 
else
   { 
    if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,-1))
           { xyz=1; 
       }
    else 
      {
        if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,-2))
        
       { xyz=2;
        }
        
        
		else 
		{if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,-3))
			
			{ xyz=3; }
      
      
			else 
			{if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,-4))
				
				{ xyz=4; }
      
      
				else 
				{if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,-5))
					
					{ xyz=5; }
      
      
					else 
					{if (PCL6 == Ref(Low,-6))
						
						{ xyz=6; }
             
					}
				}
			}
		}
      }
   }




Plot(xyz,"No of Bars Since Latest Lowest Low",colorTurquoise);

Please help me to resolve this problem.

2

It is not about nesting. It is just incorrect use of arrays.

Please read " if-else statement needs boolean (or single numeric expression), not array" part of the common coding mistakes part of the Users Manual:
https://www.amibroker.com/guide/a_mistakes.html

for explanation and solution.

3

"For this purpose I am using the function called

LLV = Lowest Low Value"

For this purpose I am using the following function called

LLV = Lowest Low Value

nested if else statement

(in my original post I forgot to mention to second function which I have used)

4

Thanks for the help

I did my requirement by using IFF

The IIf( ) function is used to create conditional assignments.