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