Re: [Gretl-devel] strings in obsnum()
On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi, I encountered the following problem:
<hansl>
setobs 12 1960:1
string label = "1960:1"
string two = "1960:1 1970:1"
string labelintwo = strsplit(two,1)
print labelintwo # gives 1960:1
c1 = obsnum(1960:1)
print c1 # gives 1
c2 = obsnum(label)
print c2 # gives 1
c3 = obsnum(strsplit(two,1))
print c3 # gives NA
</hansl>
Of course easy to workaround, but since strsplit() is supposed to return
a string, shouldn't the last variant also work? And if it doesn't work,
shouldn't it throw an error instead?
You're right: it should "just work" but failing that it should flag
an error. I'll look into it.
Allin