[Gretl-users] Input data problem

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Krzysztof Dmytrów wrote:

> I have a problem with GRETL 1.7.1 installed from Ubuntu 8.04 
> repositories. I can open data saved in previous GRETL version 
> from Ubuntu repositories 1.6.5, I can also open and work on data 
> that was created under Windows. But when I try to create new 
> data set or when I try to modify existing data set, I cannot 
> input numbers with decimal places. When I try to input dot "." 
> as decimall separator or comma ",", in both cases I get the same 
> error message: Extraneous character ',' in data.

This issue was fixed some time ago.  Please update to gretl 1.7.4.  
You can find debs at

http://packages.debian.org/gretl

But as a workaround for 1.7.1, have you tried unchecking the box 
"use locale separator for decimal point", under 
/Tools/Preferences/General?  That might help.

Allin Cottrell