[Gretl-users] year and period

I would like to save in two strings the year and quarter of the last observation of a quarterly series. I got to obtain the quarter but I don't know how to save the year. In the script below, the string @send contains the last observation = 1993:4 and the string @per contains the quarter =4. Any ideas about how to obtain the year? <script> open data9-3 scalar endobs=lastobs(reskwh) sprintf send "%s", date(endobs) string per = @send + 5 print "@send" print "@per" </script> Note for the programmers: I suggest two new commands, year() and period(), similar to date() to obtain these strings. -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.et.bs.ehu.es -- Para leer y escribir documentos en formato "open document" (.ods, .odt, .odb, odp) utilice OpenOffice.org o también MS Office, instalando el "plugin": http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin