Open file on the web

[javiersan]

Hello,

The following is an example of a type of address on the web that I cannot figure out how to read in Eviews.

Say you want to wfopen the excel link provided in the page: http://www.bdl.gov.lb/edata/elements.as ... _BDLa_SID4
it's URL is http://www.bdl.gov.lb/edata/elementsXLS ... _BDLa_SID4
which when clicked opens a file called "BDLedata.xls"

but when you do

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wfopen(t) "http://www.bdl.gov.lb/edata/elementsXLS.asp?Table=q_BDLa_SID4"

Eviews doesn't open any excel file.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Thanks,

Javier

[EViews Gareth]

Unfortunately EViews won't be able to interpret such a page. You'll have to download them manually :(

[javiersan]

Just to confirm, it isn't possible either to open the html page, isn't it?

This doesn't work:

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wfopen(t=html) "http://www.bdl.gov.lb/edata/elements.asp?Table=q_BDLa_SID4"

Thanks,

Javier

[EViews Gareth]

Correct. EViews cannot interpret ASP, which is the technology used to create that webpage.