Series Names that Contain Symboles

[w_nawfal]

Hello All

I'm fetching from a database that contains series whose names contain symbols (such as the @ sign) - eviews does not seem to be able to work well with such series.

unfortunately, i don't thing any of the copy commands will work (such ad dbcopy etc.) because the database is not located on a local machine and thus i cannot obtain the correct path to the series i need (i figured if i can do this i can just copy it into my work file under an acceptable name.)

thank you in advance for any help on this issue.

Wes

[EViews Gareth]

What format is the database?

[w_nawfal]

not sure Gareth - it's called Datastream, maybe you're familar with it?

[EViews Jason]

You can either add the Datastream database to the your database registry or open the database using an alias

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'use type=datastream if using Dataworks server otherwise use type=datastreamxml if using Datafeeds server dbopen(type=datastream,u=myusername,p=mypassword) myDBAlias 'or if the database is already in the database registry dbopen myDBAlias 'fetch/copy a series to myworkfile copy myDBAlias::@:R5FTSP myEViewsSeries

[w_nawfal]

Hello Jason

the Datastream database is already added to my registery (username & password are saved as well) and i am able to fetch many series from it without any problems.

I've just discovered that the problem lies within the database itself (some series are not encoded properly), and as such not an issue of Eviews per se.

thank you for your reply

Wes