[Gretl-devel] Re: obs markers with quotes
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi, here's another thing that I just found which might be
strange; see
this minimal example script:
<hansl>
set echo off
outfile markercheck.txt
printf "\"United Kingdom\""
end outfile
nulldata 1
markers --from-file=markercheck.txt
</hansl>
This works without errors, but when I double-click on the index series I
see as the obs marker the following literal string with only opening,
but not closing, quotes:
"United Kingdom
Somehow this looks troublesome, no?
You're hitting the 16-character limit on observation markers, OBSLEN
in the code.
And while we're talking about obs markers, here's also a
newbie-style
question: Wouldn't it be good if the obs markers could also be set from
a series which is already in place?
There's "genr markers" as described in ch. 4 of the Guide, but at
present it's not set up to handle string-valued series. That could
be updated fairly easily, I think.
Allin