>> Am 09.10.2013 um 16:49 schrieb "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt;: >> >> On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Pindar Os wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I found some infos how to use the getenv() function in the manuel for e.g. >> 'USER'. Did you mean that Jack? >> I think in terms of an automatic parse fucntion the getline() fucntion >> would be needed and sscanf(). > > I mean: suppoose you have the following hansl script called foo.inp > > <hansl> > string foo = getenv("A") > scalar bar = ngetenv("N") > printf "%g kilograms of %s\n", bar, foo > </hansl> > > in a Unix shell you can execute the following > > <bash> > A=wood N=23.5 gretlcli -b foo.inp > </bash> > > or > > <bash> > A = stone; export A > N=33.3 gretlcli -b foo.inp > </bash> > > and get output like > > <output> > 23.5 kilograms of wood > </output> > > Of course you could enclose this into a shell script; I guess something similar can be done with a Windows "batch file", or whatever they're called. > > This said, in the current CVS version, which will soon become 1.9.13, we have quite a few new functions that make it possible to exactly what you say: read a text file and grab numerical or string values from it, given a proper syntax. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) > > Università Politecnica delle Marche > (formerly known as Università di Ancona) > > r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it > http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti > -------------------------------------------------------