[Gretl-users] year and period

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

I would like to save in two strings the year and quarter of the last 
observation of a quarterly series. I got to obtain the quarter but I don't 
know how to save the year. 

In  the script below, the string @send contains the last observation = 1993:4
and the string @per contains the quarter =4. Any ideas about how to obtain the 
year?

<script>
open data9-3
scalar endobs=lastobs(reskwh)
sprintf send "%s", date(endobs)
string per = @send + 5

print "@send"
print "@per"
</script>

Note for the programmers:  I suggest two new commands, year() and period(), 
similar to date() to obtain these strings.




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