[Gretl-devel] Re: Gretl-devel Digest, Vol 176, Issue 6

Asunto: [Gretl-devel] Re: bug in xls importer? De: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; Fecha: 15/9/21 23:28 Para: Gretl development <gretl-devel(a)gretlml.univpm.it&gt; On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Allin Cottrell wrote: > One more observation: if I open Ignacio's Salarios.xls in gnumeric, > then save it as xls, gretl can read both the numeric and the > string-valued columns OK. > > I'm therefore reinforced in my belief that this is an OpenOffice bug, > or maybe some inscrutable xls quirk. Ah, but... we were led astray by one element of the xls file, but once we figured out that was a false trail we failed fully to recompute. Now we do so, meaning that in current git (and in the next release) gretl will manage to import the string-valued series in Ignacio's Salarios.xls successfully. So thanks, Ignacio, for posting what eventually turned out to be an instructive example. Allin