Adjusting sample size

[ectrie]

Hello everybody !

I have written a big program in EViews. Now that everything works I want to generalize my program. That means, in stead of manually putting scalars everywhere I want to do it just one time on top of my program. For example:

on top of my program I stated: "scalar test = 20"
My samplesize is changing a lot through my program. If i now state:

"smpl 1 test" this will give an error: error in sample: Illegal date.
But if i put: "smpl 1 20" it works.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I checked the help documentation but I did not get any wiser from this.

I also tried "@test" , "!test" and "smpl 1 1 test"
It all did not work. All help is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!

[EViews Glenn]

[edit]Use a program variable or a string.

Code: Select all

%test = "20" !test1 = 20 smpl 1 %test smpl 1 !test1

[ectrie]

Aah yes! Now it works! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!

[EViews Glenn]

You're running this in a program? What's the error message. I just ran with both the string and program variables with no error.

[ectrie]

Yes running in a program. Working now! Thank you!!!!