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'
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