Re: [Gretl-users] How to delete a series in a loop?

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Logan Kelly wrote: > Hello, > > I need to delete a series inside a loop. Is there a way to do this? What I am doing is loading data on a country, process the data, save some results, replace the data with the next country's in my data set. Below is my code that does not work: > > loop i = 1..numcountry > cc = strsplit(ccode,i) > append "(a)datafile.xlsx" --time-series --sheet="@cc" --coloffset=0 > --rowoffset=1 > > #Do some stuff > > delete Q* # yields an error > delete R* # would yield an error if previous line did not end loop > > This of course yields the error: > > You cannot delete series in this context > > I understand that delete does not work in a loop, but is there a work around? Or a better way to handle repeated processes? Why not just wrap everything into a function and then call the funciton from within the loop? That will take care of thrashing local variables automatically. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------

Why not just wrap everything into a function and then call the function from within the loop? That will take care of thrashing local variables automatically.