Am 05.11.2024 um 07:31 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On 04/11/2024 23:26, Cottrell, Allin wrote:
> Thanks for the report, Klaus. My reactions:
>
> * '@' is treated specially on the gretl command-line: it calls for
> string substitution. So I'm not surprised that OECD's revising their
> identifiers to include '@' in some cases (which seems to me a bit
> goofy) has caused trouble. But in gretl git there's now a workaround
> for that: we recognize '@' as simply a literal character in the
> context of the "data" command when the command "open dbnomics"
has
> been issued. This change will be in gretl snapshots tomorrow.
Uhm, are we sure we want this?
I mean, in theory one could use string substitution in a gretl script
to obtain the desired results.
Good point.
Also loosely related, during my little testing it seemed that you cannot
use a quoted string (and probably not a string variable?) with the
'data' command. Maybe that would be good to have?
thanks
sven