[Gretl-devel] Re: built-in strings: $ vs. @

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > ? eval @gretldir >> C: > Das Symbol 'C' ist nicht definiert  # [undefined] > ? eval $gretldir > C:\Program Files\gretl > ? > > I would have expected @gretldir to either work, or to return an empty > string, or to throw an error, but not this problem. Maybe some backslash > trouble? Actually the first result should be expected. "@" does string substitution, and after substiitution has been done the input line line reads eval C:\Program Files\gretl To get the effect you apparently expected you'd need to do eval "@gretldir"