Re: [Gretl-devel] New function for retrieving data from BLS

Will do thanks. -------- Original message -------- From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" Date:04/22/2014 2:46 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Logan Kelly Cc: Gretl development Subject: RE: [Gretl-devel] New function for retrieving data from BLS On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Logan Kelly wrote: True. Having seen what BLS returns from a typical query, I'd suggest you to proceed as follows: * load the output from bls.gov as a huge ascii string; * by using native functions (readfile, getline, sscanf spring to mind), write an intermediate text file with the structure code, period, value ... CFU0000008000, 2000, 5920 CFU0000008000, 2002, 5534 ... Note that the ordering of the rows will be irrelevant (apart, of course, from the header line) * use the "join" command to import the data into your dataset I agree, it won't be pretty, but it should do the job. Not at the moment, no, we have no native equivalent to the "curl" command. However, that's available for all major OSes, so you might as well issue a system call via "!" (see the help for the "shell" command) for now. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------