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Annotated Lists

Postby madm » Mon Feb 05, 2018 11:57 am

Hi,

I am writing a program that assembles a list of variables that I use to extract series from an external source. As an example, suppose my code looks like this

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%vars = _
"GDP " + _
"CPI " + _
"UNEMP"


As I am adding to and removing from this list on a regular basis and the variable names are often unobvious, I was hoping to be able to annotate them with a comment:

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%vars = _
"GDP " + _   'Gross domestic product
"CPI " + _   'Consumer price index
"UNEMP"      'Unemployment


But it appears the Eviews parser can't handle this and it throws an error. I know I could probably set something up in a table, or I could just list everything again in a commented block, but neither of those ways is good from a maintainability perspective. Is there another way to do what I want to do programmatically? I guess one way would be to make the description part of the string and split it from the variables in the program. Not sure how I would do that.

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Re: Annotated Lists

Postby EViews Gareth » Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:02 pm

Unfortunately EViews does not allow comments in the middle of a line, so you can't do it like that. I'd just go with a block before hand.
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