Re: [Gretl-devel] can't save an (imported from .csv) file via GUI
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
Works in git compiled now
9 листопада 2015, 14:41:01, від oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net :
Dear all, .csv file
var1,var2,var3 21,“male”,2 22,“female”,3 23,“male”,4
is read ok, e.g. var1
1 21 2 22 3 23
var2
1 “male” 2 “female” 3 “male” For, example series var4 = var2 + 5 is ok
But gretl\File\Save data, gretl:save file\save crashes Gretl Oleh !
Thanks for the report. There have been some recent changes in git with
regard to handling "string-valued" series, so I guess they helped with
this case.
Since it's not super-clear from the email text, I might point out that
it's a rather odd CSV file that Oleh is talking about. The double
quotes around "male" and "female" in the input are not ASCII
characters, they're left and right double-quotes from some non-ASCII
encoding. That means that they're not recognized as simply delimiting
the words "male" and "female" but are taken as part of the strings, as
in "quote-male-unquote", "quote-female-unquote".
Allin