Re: [Gretl-users] problem with fcast --dynamic

Sorry, that was not a good suggestion on my part. String substitution is generally a last resort and it's not needed in this case, since commands are supposed to accept scalar variables in place of numerical constants. My revised recommendation here would be: scalar ft1 = $t2 + 1 scalar ft2 = $t2 + b.nhor fcast ft1 ft2 --dynamic I gather that your original version, fcast ($t2+1) ($t2+b.nhor) --dynamic worked OK once you sorted out the "dynamic" issue, but you "got lucky" in that respect. Such expressions are fragile in a command context. For example if you inserted spaces fcast ($t2 + 1) ... the parsing would fall apart. (And I don't consider that a bug, because commands generally expect space-separated arguments.) Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users