[Gretl-users] Re: import problem with quotes in text data files
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 6:32 PM Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net> wrote:
attached is a minimal example file. There are two data columns (no
observation column), and because the blank (space) is the column
separator, the column headings are enclosed in double quotes at the source.
(I did not make up this format.)
Gretl imports the data alright, but kind of ignores the double quotes,
treating the first two space-separated words as the names, which gives
totally wrong headings after the first one.[...]
Gretl will handle double-quoted "data" strings OK, but the general
rule is that if the first line is supposed to contain variable names
(column headings) it must be reasonably sanitized, with the help of a
text editor if need be. Of course gretl identifiers cannot contain
spaces, and enclosing such illegal names in quotes doesn't help at
all. In fact, it seems to say, "Hey, I really want to use these
illegal names to identify the variables!"
Allin