[Gretl-users] Re: join: specify column separator explicitly?

On Wed, 22 May 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the 'join' command on a lot of source files with semicolon as > the field separator. This seems to work, but I was wondering whether it > would accelerate the whole thing if I could tell gretl about the > semicolon? I haven't found an option for this in the user guide chapter > on 'join'. > > (It could also be that it is just slow because it's a lot of files...) Of course I'm not in the position of making an informed judgement, but I reckon that the CPU time needed to figure out what the delimiter is should be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude smaller than anything involving I/O...