Em 6 de março de 2010 Allin Cottrell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cottrell@wfu.edu">cottrell@wfu.edu</a>&gt;</span> escreveu:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Henrique Andrade wrote:<br>
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&gt; When I try to open a excel file (.xls) the following error message appears:<br>
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&gt; &quot;First char of varname (0x0) is bad<br>
&gt; (first must be alphabetical)<br>
&gt; Please rename this variable and try again&quot;<br>
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</div>Apparently there&#39;s a NUL byte (0x0) in this XLS file where we&#39;re<br>
expecting a variable name to start. Try exporting to CSV and<br>
importing the CSV into gretl.</blockquote><div><br>I did this and it worked fine.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

 If you&#39;d like to send me the XLS file I&#39;ll take a look.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ok, I&#39;ll send the file (try the second tab in Excel file).<br><br>Thanks for your help!<br><br>Best,<br>Henrique <br></div></div>

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