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.
Allin