Hi, attached is a minimal example file. There are two data columns (no observation column), and because the blank (space) is the column separator, the column headings are enclosed in double quotes at the source. (I did not make up this format.) Gretl imports the data alright, but kind of ignores the double quotes, treating the first two space-separated words as the names, which gives totally wrong headings after the first one. The only workaround that I can see is to manually replace the interior blanks with underscores or something like that? Note that during the import gretl tells me that it "treats double quotes as significant", whatever that means. Of course gretl cannot get every weird text file format right, but at the same time AFAIK it is impossible to provide some helpful hints how to interpret the contents. thanks sven _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list --gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email togretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website:https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 6:32 PM Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: > > attached is a minimal example file. There are two data columns (no > observation column), and because the blank (space) is the column > separator, the column headings are enclosed in double quotes at the source. > (I did not make up this format.) > > Gretl imports the data alright, but kind of ignores the double quotes, > treating the first two space-separated words as the names, which gives > totally wrong headings after the first one.[...] Gretl will handle double-quoted "data" strings OK, but the general rule is that if the first line is supposed to contain variable names (column headings) it must be reasonably sanitized, with the help of a text editor if need be. Of course gretl identifiers cannot contain spaces, and enclosing such illegal names in quotes doesn't help at all. In fact, it seems to say, "Hey, I really want to use these illegal names to identify the variables!"