[Gretl-devel] environment variables in gretl script

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> [getenv would] be very useful. I am currently working on a paper 
> where I had to run a number of Monte Carlo experiments. I 
> managed to hack a shell script with some grep/sed magic to get 
> what I wanted, but getenv() would have been very useful. 

I'll see what I can do about that.

> sprintf() would also be good.

It's already there:

? sprintf foostr "egg%d", 10
Saved string as 'foostr'
? print "@foostr"
egg10

No, it's not in the manual yet, I'm afraid!

Allin.