Re: [Gretl-devel] problems importing dataset
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Artur T. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to open a csv-dataset (same error with xls or txt version) which
> definitely worked in tha past (half a year ago). Now I obtain the following
> error using current csv on Win 7.
Confirmed. It would seem that the culprit is the series named "INF"; if you
modify the file and call it something else, it should work. I have no ideas
as to why this happens.
Now I do. The problem is that process_csv_varname() (from
lib/src/csvdata.c) calls numeric_string() (from strutils.c) as numeric,
which, in turn, recognises "INF" as a numerical value. We screen out
"inf"
and "nan" (which we admit as legitimate variable names), but not their
capitalised variants.
I think we need a policy decision here. Allin?
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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
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