[Gretl-devel] Re: Files not found by join (or readfile)
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 18.07.2021 um 15:38 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>> 2. Create the trivial text file "C:\Users\account with
>> blank\Documents\gretl\oha.txt", which contains just a single line of
>> short but arbitrary text.
...
> I can't replicate this problem on Windows 10 using the July 14 snapshot
> (but snapshot date shouldn't matter since nothing has changed in this
OK, so the first puzzle is solved. Turns out that in the new user
account the default Windows settings about hiding file name extensions
were active again (I usually switch them off), so the created file
wasn't actually "out.txt" as it appeared, but "out.txt.txt"
instead.
Aha.
> I recommend examining the path string in question using printf
and
> wrapping in single quotes, to check that you haven't got any leading or
> trailing spaces. Might also be worth checking for non-breaking space in
> place of a proper space.
I guess it's moot now, but what's this thing with single quotes? I'm not
aware they have a syntactic role in gretl.
No assigned syntactic role: it's just that printing delimiters
around a string makes it apparent if there are any leading or
trailing "invisible" characters, as in
'expected filename.txt '
Allin