double brackets & string issue

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double brackets & string issue

Postby ottavio.ricchi » Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:26 am

Hi there,
there is something that is driving us mad and hope you can help

running the two following programming lines (lines 5 and 6) gives an error message

%wdir="\teseo\gestione\DIREZIONE 1\Ufficio II\Apri e lavora\Patto di Stabilità\codici_Eviews\Creazione database"
cd %wdir

The error message is:
Path or file not found : \TESEO\GESTIONE\DIREZIONE in "CD
\TESEO\GESTIONE\DIREZIONE 1\UFFICIO II\APRI E
LAVORA\PATTO DI STABILITÀ\CODICI_EVIEWS\CREAZIONE
DATABASE" on line 6.

It looks like the brackets are not recognised by the program, however I can assure you that my collegues run the same program without having any trouble

Please help!

Ottavio

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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:35 am

When you say brackets, what do you mean? I see no brackets?
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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby ottavio.ricchi » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:01 am

I'm very sorry, I meant quotation marks i.e. this simbol "

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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:03 am

When you run the program do you have "Version 4 Compatible Mode" turn on?
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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby ottavio.ricchi » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:06 am

Let me add that the text
"\teseo\gestione\DIREZIONE 1\Ufficio II\Apri e lavora\Patto di Stabilità\codici_Eviews\Creazione database"
is colored in red, so apparently eviews considers it as a string
however when it comes to running the programm it does not work like that and it stops at \teseo\gestione\DIREZIONE 1
the first empty space is between DiREZIONE and 1

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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby ottavio.ricchi » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:07 am

version 4 compatibility is on

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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby ottavio.ricchi » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:19 am

It looks that it works if you place three quoation marks on each side

%wdir="""\\teseo.dt.tesoro.it\gestione\DIREZIONE 1\Ufficio II\Apri e lavora\Patto di Stabilità\codici_Eviews\Creazione database"""
cd %wdir

... you tell me why :-) !

thanks a lot anyway

Ottavio

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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:23 am

ottavio.ricchi wrote:version 4 compatibility is on


Turn it off.
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Re: double brackets & string issue

Postby ottavio.ricchi » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:28 am

Gosh,
you are right, thank you.
...stil,l if version 4 is on, it works with three quotation marks

Ottavio


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