On 12/23/2013 10:47 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Am 23.12.2013 20:57, schrieb Dominik Menno: >>> Dear Gretl users, >>> >>> sorry for bothering you. I found it out myself; I guess it is an issue >>> of portability between operation systems (in particular Linux to >>> windows) and with file encoding/line endings of text files. >> >> That's actually what I had thought first, but... >>> >>> Here in particular, it was the file ending of the csv-files that caused >>> the problem. I now generate the CSV file so that it has the windows file >>> ending (encoding is now ASCII/CRLF), see attached file. >> >> your earlier file also had the Windows line endings (CRLF), so it seemed >> that that was not the issue. > > The file as attached to > http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2013-December/009509.html > has 0a (plain LF) line endings, according to Emacs's hex mode. > >> In any case, I was under the impression that gretl would import/accept >> text files regardless of the platform-specific line endings. (not 100% >> sure though) > > Yes -- or at least that's the intent: we aim to support CR/LF, LF, > CR, and also unholy mixtures of these. > >> So there may still be something there, perhaps also specific to the >> experimental 64-bit version of gretl on Win that you're using >> apparently. > > The 1.9.14 gretl release for 64-bit Windows doesn't really count as > "experimental": it's officially supported now. > >> Could you try the precise file you sent to the list first >> (re-grab it from the message attachment) if it really works? > > I too would be interested to hear how that goes. > > Allin Cottrell
Hi Sven and Allin, thanks for your help. The original file I attached to the first mail had the unix type of line ending (is this plain??). So I did as you suggested and the error remains under windows 64bit. Here is the gretl output: parsing E:\CollegeDistOrigin.csv... using delimiter ',' longest line: 100 characters first field: 'female' number of columns = 14 number of variables: 14 number of non-blank lines: 342 scanning for variable names... line: female,black,hispanic,bytest,dadcoll,momcoll,ownhome,urban,cue80,stwmfg80,dist,tuition,ed,incomehi scanning for row labels and data... the cell for variable 1, obs 1 is empty: treating as missing value treating these as undated data Again, as I said if I generate the CSV file with CRLF file ending, the error disappears under Windows. I can import the file both under windows and under Linux without error message. Best, Dominik > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > -- Dominik Menno RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 64 52064 Aachen Tel: +49 (0)241/80 96 286 Fax: +49 (0)241/80 92 337 dominik.menno(a)rwth-aachen.de
