Re: [Gretl-users] Input data problem
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Krzysztof Dmytrów wrote:
I have a problem with GRETL 1.7.1 installed from Ubuntu 8.04
repositories. I can open data saved in previous GRETL version
from Ubuntu repositories 1.6.5, I can also open and work on data
that was created under Windows. But when I try to create new
data set or when I try to modify existing data set, I cannot
input numbers with decimal places. When I try to input dot "."
as decimall separator or comma ",", in both cases I get the same
error message: Extraneous character ',' in data.
This issue was fixed some time ago. Please update to gretl 1.7.4.
You can find debs at
http://packages.debian.org/gretl
But as a workaround for 1.7.1, have you tried unchecking the box
"use locale separator for decimal point", under
/Tools/Preferences/General? That might help.
Allin Cottrell