Re: [Gretl-users] printf behaviour and strings
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, artur tarassow wrote:
I observed the following behaviour using current cvs on windows:
string foo = "cpi"
matrix m1_cpi = I(2)
printf "%.3f\n", m1_@foo
results in the message "The symbol 'm1_' is undefined". Is this
intended or
a bug?
Well, up till now our policy has been that in the context of
printf and sprintf, we do @-string substitution only in the
format portion of the command line, and not in the arguments
portion. I think there was a reason for that, but I can't
reconstruct it right now. Perhaps we're being too restrictive;
I need to think about it a bit more.
Allin Cottrell