Re: [Gretl-devel] The mysterious stack() function

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: Minor correction: The included helper function matof (as in: matrix variant of atof) had a little redundancy, because atof itself already handles empty strings. Here's the update: <hansl> function matrix matof(strings in, int skip[0::0])     # Returns column vector with the numerical values in the string array.     # 'skip' refers to how many leading array elements should be discarded.     N = nelem(in)     matrix m = ones(N - skip,1) * $huge # initialize to nonsense     loop i = 1+skip .. N --quiet         m[i - skip] = atof(in[i])     endloop     return m end function </hansl> cheers, sven