[Gretl-devel] Re: bug in xls importer?
On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Allin Cottrell wrote:
One more observation: if I open Ignacio's Salarios.xls in
gnumeric, then save it as xls, gretl can read both the numeric and
the string-valued columns OK.
I'm therefore reinforced in my belief that this is an OpenOffice
bug, or maybe some inscrutable xls quirk.
Ah, but... we were led astray by one element of the xls file, but
once we figured out that was a false trail we failed fully to
recompute. Now we do so, meaning that in current git (and in the
next release) gretl will manage to import the string-valued series
in Ignacio's Salarios.xls successfully.
So thanks, Ignacio, for posting what eventually turned out to be an
instructive example.
Allin