Am 01.07.2015 um 17:41 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>> eval $depvar # gives LRM > > "Use versus mention", as W. V. Quine has it. Neither string variables > nor string literals are ever acceptable as identifiers for series, > matrices or whatever, in gretl commands. You need the unquoted name, or > (for series only, in suitable contexts) the ID number. The above is > basically equivalent to trying > > series s1 = "LRM" Ok thanks for the explanation. If I were picky I might say that 'eval $depvar' should then print out '"LRM"' instead of just 'LRM', but I'm not. > Here are two ways of doing what you wanted: > string tmp = $depvar > series s1 = @tmp I had actually tried '@$depvar' but that got gretl choking. > # use the $ylist accessor (cleaner) Yeah if I hadn't stopped reading the $ylist help after the first sentence I would have gotten there myself... thanks, sven
