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?