Re: [Gretl-devel] user-provided date format specs?

On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: > I keep running into situations where gretl doesn't recognize the dates > in my csv files. Now instead of asking for more heuristics and > cleverness, I'm wondering whether it would be possible for the user to > specify the format pattern at the time of opening/importing the file. > E.g. let the user specify the string "yyyy~mm" to denote monthly data > with strange separation characters (this is just an example, not my > actual case). > > I don't know whether in the file-open dialogs there is actually a place > to do that, though.... For special cases one has the "join" command with its --tkey option. I suppose --tkey could be added for plain "open", although as you imply it wouldn't be trivial to find a suitable place for this in the GUI. But could you tell us what sort of CSV dates are not being recognized? Unless they're wildly idiosyncratic I think our heuristics could probably be modified to handle them.