Re: [Gretl-users] String and Scalar Error
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Henrique wrote:
I'm getting an error message when I try to run that script using
the latest snapshot:
<hansl>
clear
nulldata 200
setobs 12 2000:01 --time-series
string data_1o_lim_sup = "2010:02"
string data_2o_lim_sup = "2013:7"
scalar n_exec = @data_2o_lim_sup - @data_1o_lim_sup + 1
</hansl>
The message is: "Data types not conformable for operation".
That's expected. There was a discussion of this not long ago (sorry,
don't have the reference to hand). We're no longer accepting
strings such as "2010:02" as if they were proper scalar values. You
need to use the obsnum() function.
Allin