From christoph.klein@student.kit.edu Sun Jul 19 16:48:48 2009
From: Klein, Christoph <christoph.klein@student.kit.edu>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: [Gretl-devel] mread broken in cvs?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:48:43 +0200
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Hi,

I just came back from a two weeks vacation and had to find out that all my scripts no longer work. It seems like "mread" no longer parses string variables. The following test script fails on current cvs:

<script>
nulldata 10

series y=t

matrix y2=y

mwrite(y2,"test.mat")

matrix y3=mread("test.mat")

string fileName="test.mat"

matrix y4=mread(fileName)
</script>

but did work on old gretl versions. The error is

? matrix y4=mread(fileName)
fileName: No such file or directory

Error executing script: halting
> matrix y4=mread(fileName)

It seems like mread tries to use filename directly as a string, although it is not quoted.

Christoph

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From cottrell@wfu.edu Sun Jul 19 17:04:14 2009
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] mread broken in cvs?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:04:13 -0400
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Klein, Christoph wrote:

> I just came back from a two weeks vacation and had to find out
> that all my scripts no longer work. It seems like "mread" no
> longer parses string variables...

Welcome back.

Sorry, I was trying to be too clever (avoiding the need for
quotation marks around string literals).  My change is now
reverted in CVS.

Allin.

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From christoph.klein@student.kit.edu Mon Jul 20 09:35:39 2009
From: chris <christoph.klein@student.kit.edu>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] mread broken in cvs?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:35:36 +0100
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Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Klein, Christoph wrote:
>
>   
>> I just came back from a two weeks vacation and had to find out
>> that all my scripts no longer work. It seems like "mread" no
>> longer parses string variables...
>>     
>
> Welcome back.
>
> Sorry, I was trying to be too clever (avoiding the need for
> quotation marks around string literals).  My change is now
> reverted in CVS.
>   
Thanks, now everything works again!

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