Re: [Gretl-users] csv import bug on windows?
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 23.12.2013 20:57, schrieb Dominik Menno:
> Dear Gretl users,
>
> sorry for bothering you. I found it out myself; I guess it is an issue
> of portability between operation systems (in particular Linux to
> windows) and with file encoding/line endings of text files.
That's actually what I had thought first, but...
>
> Here in particular, it was the file ending of the csv-files that caused
> the problem. I now generate the CSV file so that it has the windows file
> ending (encoding is now ASCII/CRLF), see attached file.
your earlier file also had the Windows line endings (CRLF), so it seemed
that that was not the issue.
The file as attached to
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2013-December/009509.html
has 0a (plain LF) line endings, according to Emacs's hex mode.
In any case, I was under the impression that gretl would
import/accept
text files regardless of the platform-specific line endings. (not 100%
sure though)
Yes -- or at least that's the intent: we aim to support CR/LF, LF,
CR, and also unholy mixtures of these.
So there may still be something there, perhaps also specific to the
experimental 64-bit version of gretl on Win that you're using
apparently.
The 1.9.14 gretl release for 64-bit Windows doesn't really count as
"experimental": it's officially supported now.
Could you try the precise file you sent to the list first
(re-grab it from the message attachment) if it really works?
I too would be interested to hear how that goes.
Allin Cottrell