[Gretl-devel] Re: BUG: mread() using relative paths

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Artur Tarassow wrote: > using latest git on Ubuntu 20.10, mread() using relative paths fails > here. Here is a sample script: > > # Set according to your path > string BASE_PATH = "/home/at/tmp" > string DATA_NAME = "matrix.csv" > set workdir "BASE_PATH" > string filename = sprintf("./mread_csv/%s", DATA_NAME) > catch matrix a = mread(filename) Your "set workdir" command is wrong, should be  set workdir @BASE_PATH  # or "@BASE_PATH"

All the same, you're right that this was not working. The problem was specific to mread() applied to files with suffix "*.csv" (a relatively recent extension of functionality). That's now fixed in git.