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Thanks! It works!

Hello, I did look at @dateval. But I need to provide the format of the date string and I don't know what I'm supposed to use as formats shown in the manual are all in normal date formats such as "mm/dd/yyyy", "month dd, yyyy". So, @dateval("1999M02", "what do I put...

Hello,
I'm trying to convert a date string in the format of 1999M02 (date string obtained from: smpl if seriesX <> na, %firstdate = @otods(1)) to a date value. Could you please help? I've been looking and googling but can't figure out how.
Thanks,
vivien

I tried reversing the two lines and reversing the order of lags in the short-form. Both scenarios have similar delays as before. Thanks.

You mean reverse the order of the two command lines?

Thanks for your help!

I installed the latest patch which brings me up to "Oct 17 2013 build" and ran the program again. But not much improvement.
time1 = 0.010000
time2 = 22.42800
Thanks.

I'll install the patches and then try again. If I still have problem after that, can I just reply to this topic?
Thanks.

Version 7.2; Enterprise Edition - Jun 2 2011 build
Thanks!

Hi,
So I did as you said.
time1 (all variables listed) = 0.006000
time2 (short-form) = 23.61100
So what went wrong then?
Thanks again,
viv

Hi, I copied out the codes from my original program to test it out. I literally watch the screen as the program runs and it definitely takes a lot longer when it runs the last line (the short-form) versus the second last which does the exact same thing. My data is pulled from Haver. Here're the code...

Hello, I'm experiencing unusually long run time in ls regressions with lagged independent variables when I use the short-form (see below) instead of listing out each of the lagged variables. Is there anything I can do to reduce the execution time of the short-form, especially when I want to repeat t...

Hi Chris, Thanks for your quick response!!! So I added @enddate and I did get an extra column with the end dates. For some reason, Excel seems to have problem reading the dates. For example, the value is "01/31/1950 12:00:00 AM" but it's displayed as "02/01/1950 12:00:00 AM" in E...

Hello, I am using the following command line to export monthly series that end in _hp to Excel using wfsave. wfsave(2,t=excel,maptype=n) "W:\EViews\test_write_potential.xls" @keep *_hp The dates exported are in the format of YYYY/MM/DD showing the first date of each month. I actually want ...