Re: [Gretl-devel] obsnum() doesn't accept bundle member
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
example script snippet (not entirely self-contained, sorry, you need
a
dataset that contains obs 2000:1):
<hansl>
bundle b = null
string s1 = "2000:1"
eval obsnum(s1) # gives valid number
b.str1 = s1 # bundle b pre-existing
printf "%s\n", b.str1 # gives "2000:1"
eval obsnum(b.str1) # gives "NA"!?
</hansl>
I know / have been told that _commands_ often cannot understand the bundle
syntax. (So 'var mybundle.lagorder mylist' doesn't work.) But I would think
that a _function_ like obsnum() should work with stuff like the above.
Almost all functions will handle that sort of argument OK; obsnum()
was an odd man out (for historical reasons that I won't try to get
into here). Now fixed in CVS.
Allin