On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 22.02.2015 um 15:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Wingenroth, Thorsten wrote: > >> The thousands-separator detection is not working right on this file, and >> all variables are being taken as string-valued. There must be a subtle >> difference between this file and the one you posted a few weeks back >> (DAX) -- I checked, and reading of the DAX file is still correct. I'll >> take another look at this. > > Perhaps because now it's also a millions-separator, i.e. a dot ocurring > twice in the same number? Or was that also the case back then?
That was also the case with the previous file. I think the difference is coming from the representation of dates, which was in the canonical form YYYY-MM-DD in the previous file but is in the form DD.MM.YYYY in the current one. I guess gretl is getting confused due to the need for multiple passes through the data: the pass to fix the dates is somehow interfering with the pass to fix the thousands separators. A fix shouldn't be too far away. But this time I think I'll put in a "backstop": if we find ourselves having to construct a "string table" for data that are composed of nothing but digits, dot and comma, we should flag an error and give up instead of accepting the data as string-valued. Allin
