Re: [Gretl-users] WG: append horizontal and vertical

>>> However, I can see that since you want to import hundreds of series, "join" >>> is not going to be very convenient. >> >> Heh. I beg to differ :) >> >> Here's an alternative implementation which uses "join". Evaluating >> the relative merits of the two solutions is left as an exercise to the reader. Ha, I suspected there could be a nice way of using "join" for the job, and naturally Jack has found it! > Thanks. This is more concise (and in some points more general - the > rest I changed), but the join command does not work...? The problem > seems to be that > > <hansl> > cmd = sprintf(" %s %s --ikey=ABMAT_ConfigID\n", fname, v) </hansl> > > Does somehow not parse "v" to cmd. If I print cmd, the content of "v" > is missing. If I only print v, it is fine. Is there a maximum string > length or such? Ah, I think this is due to the invalid identifiers in your tsv files, for example "Attendance_L-Skew_I1" (dashes/minus signs not allowed). "join" is supposed to be able to handle this; the use of the "fixname" function in Jack's script is the prescribed mechanism. But apparently something is going wrong in this case. We'll investigate. Allin