[Gretl-users] Re: retrieve series name from within a function

Am 04.01.2021 um 13:09 schrieb Artur Bala: > Sorry, a question to Artur: of course, Sven solution is perfectly ok, > but... why would you need to do this? > Oops, not sure I could convincingly argue for this :) but my feeling is > that when one enters a séries name in a function he/she expects to get > back the same name to référ to. Probably the use of '*' may be a > solution to that... No, the pointer form doesn't change the name inside the function. In fact, how could you write your function if you didn't know under what identifier the input could be referenced? That's the whole point of modularized code, that you don't have to care about the names in the outside world. But I do understand what you mean. In a different context gretl has a mechanism to change the display name, namely through 'setinfo <series--graph-name=<displaystring>'. I guess you want to have something like that for the printout in models. The problem is (I think) that so much code would have to be changed for all the possible estimation commands. So why not just copy the series and be done... cheers sven