Dear GRETL folk, greetings from Paris ! Let me susggest how i found a (not so yet) definitive answer to this problem:
as you may know, in Latin countries of old europe, the decimal separator is the comma, but in XP you can modify the default national parameters: you can change all signs as you see fit. So, long ago I changed the decimal to point. So that by default I can always read any file fished from everywhere. I strongly agree with Jack's point of view. Note that INSEE in France diffuses all (well, most) of its files with point decimal separator, this is because (i guess) most are processed in SAS. cheers Farnck -- Franck Nadaud CIRED UMR 8568 CNRS - EHESS, ENPC, ENGREF, CIRAD 45 bis avenue de la Belle Gabrielle 94736 Nogent-sur-Marne Cedex TEL: 33-1-43-94-73-94 FAX: 33-1-43-94-73-70 MOB: 06-07-39-92-75 France
