[Gretl-devel] delimiter for data files in text format

This has been dabeted several times, but IMO the issue still remains. A colleague was trying to use gretl to import a dataset (with extension .txt, but that doesn't really matter) whose first lines look like this: "num"|"x"|"y"|"z" "1"|0.273856207444503|-0.036672201779096|0.854726937504524 "2"|2.24481689268639|-0.546030016142993|0.23406506726493 "3"|-0.125423034417563|-0.606878201926287|-0.853921693817499 "4"|-0.54357344128812|1.10835827274681|-0.104247994046094 "5"|-1.45939839398061|-0.274494522530397|0.111905961611328 Eventually, we managed to solve the problem by manually editing the file and replacing pipe characters by commas, but it would have been nice to have an option to give the CSV importer the delimiter character to split columns. This would also solve cases when you get a mish-mash of commas and semi-colons, like in (pseudo-)CSV files produced by national versions of some spreadsheets. Allin, I think I remember you were against this feature for some reason, but I can't recall what it was. Could you please remind me? Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------