[Gretl-users] Re: Problem opening old Gretl data-file
On Mon, 27 May 2019, Dagfinn Rime wrote:
Dear Gretl community,
I have a Gretl file, last saved in 2017, that I now can't open. I have
updated my Gretl to 2019-build.
Error message:
First char of varname '_DAY' is bad
(first must be alphabetical)
A gretl .gdt file is XML, probably in plain text form unless it is
gzipped. So it should be possible to open it in a text editor and
change "_DAY" to "DAY" or another valid variable name.
Conversion of gdt to csv is easy within gretl, non-trivial otherwise.
Allin Cottrell