On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> In this context [reading series from a very big data file] 
> it would be nice to be able to use gretl's "open" command in 
> a loop. This is not currently enabled (it may happen at some 
> point, but it wouldn't be trivial to implement).

Actually, not so difficult for gretlcli. That's now in CVS. 
(But using "open" in a loop is problematic for the GUI 
program.) So using gretlcli you can now do this sort of thing:

<hansl>
loop i=1..1000
   open huge.txt --cols=$i --delimited --quiet
   store huge.bin --database
endloop
</hansl>

Allin

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