[Gretl-devel] scriptopt

Hi, in January Jack mentioned a trick to inject an option value into a gretl script when running the script from the command line. First of all that is an undocumented thing (except if you do "gretlcli -h"), so I wanted (and still want) to send at least a message to the users list for reference. I guess it should also be added to the manual chapter "The command line interface". I put together the following example script which should be self-explanatory: <cli-script> # Script to be run from the command-line/shell with gretlcli # to test the "--scriptopt" trick, as in: # > gretlcli scriptopttest.inp -b --scriptopt=3 if exists(scriptopt) eval scriptopt eval typestr(scriptopt) # gives "matrix" for me if scriptopt == 3 print "Recognized as integer 3" # is printed endif else print "Sorry, didn't work" # redundant, it works endif </cli-script> One question I have before I send something like this to the users list, why do I get typestr(scriptopt) == "matrix" ? I thought perhaps gretl is expecting/allowing a matrix there, but then I tried the following command: <shell-command> gretlcli scriptopttest.inp -b --scriptopt={1;2} </shell-command> ...and the output I got was: ? eval scriptopt --- so exists(scriptopt) must be true! 0 --- where does this come from? ? eval typestr(scriptopt) null --- neither "0" nor "{1;2}" should give this! So some more minor mysteries appearing here... thanks, sven