[Gretl-users] Re: join: specify column separator explicitly?
On Wed, 22 May 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the 'join' command on a lot of source files with semicolon as
the field separator. This seems to work, but I was wondering whether it
would accelerate the whole thing if I could tell gretl about the
semicolon? I haven't found an option for this in the user guide chapter
on 'join'.
(It could also be that it is just slow because it's a lot of files...)
Of course I'm not in the position of making an informed judgement, but I
reckon that the CPU time needed to figure out what the delimiter is should
be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude smaller than anything involving I/O...
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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
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