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Yeah, this would be a very nice feature!

Yesterday I found out, that %string=alpha(1) works (the description was not that clear in the manual). But your hint works as well, though I don't understand, why the quotation marks are undocumented.

Hi,

just use a replacement variable with those brackets: { }

In your example this would look like this:

close {%evname}

That's not my problem, but how to get the text from the alpha series to an variable... [edit] As far as I've tested up to now, @elem( alpha , 1) generates a numeric value ... quite useless, when the content should be "UBS" or something. Is there any similar function to @elem for my alpha s...

Hello, I want to import text-data from an excel-sheet to a string-variable, e.g. for assigning this text as a legend.
Is there any possibility to get this working with EViews 5.1 programming?