[Gretl-users] year and period

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

El Friday 23 May 2008 14:25:41 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti escribió:
>
> If you're using CVS or the snapshot, you can use one of the latest bright
> inventions by Allin, that is sscanf:
>
> <script>
> open data9-3
> scalar endobs=lastobs(reskwh)
> sprintf send "%s", date(endobs)
> scalar yr
> scalar qt
> sscanf send "%d:%d", yr, qt
> </script>
>

Thank you, Jack. This works ok. I needed this variables as strings so I only 
had to add the lines

sprintf year "%4f", yr
sprintf quarter "%2f", qt

to your script. Now the numbers are saved in the strings @year and @quarter


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