Am 22.02.2015 um 16:47 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > > 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. >
Not sure if I'm suggesting things that already exist, but for these complicated/non-standard files why not give the user a chance to specify all these peculiarities (various separators, date format...), instead of trying to teach gretl to figure it all out herself? cheers, sven
