[Gretl-users] Re: A possible bug?
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 2:12 AM Fred Engst <engst.uibe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Allin and other contributors to gretl,
I found a strange behavior of gretl.
If the .gdt data file had an “&” in the file name, once I open it, save some models
in the session, and then save the session as .gretl file, I can’t open it later.
The error message reads "xmlReadFile failed on
/Users/fred/.gretl/.test/session.xml"
The same dataset without the “&” in the file name is fine.
Well, '&' is a special character in the context of XML and a gretl
session file is zipped XML. In git we now 'escape' the ampersand
character, so people who want to indulge in such file names can have
them.
Allin