DB aliases

[rousing]

Hi

I have set up a local eviews db (local_db), lets say with the following variables: series1, series2, series3.
Furthermore, I define object aliases for each of the series: a1=series1, a2=series2, a3=series3.
However, when I attempt to retrieve data in a workfile using the aliases this failes.
for instance:

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%request=@wquery("local_db", "name matches a*") fetch(d="local_db",link,c=l) {%request}

or

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fetch(d="local_db",link,c=l) a*

if I instead use the following command

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fetch(d="local_db",link,c=l) *

I get all the series but with the original names and not the defined aliases.

How do I proceed in order to use the alias definitions instead of the original variable names?

Thank you very much in advance for your assistance.

Best regards
Rasmus

[EViews Jason]

How do I proceed in order to use the alias definitions instead of the original variable names?

Unfortunately you cannot. Aliases were originally added to EViews to deal with illegal names when using the user interface. We are however looking into ways of better integrating aliases when using the command line.

[rousing]

Ok, thanks a lot for the clarification :)
I figured out that using a string containing all the exact alias names works with the fetch command, and this string can be obtained from the ini file controlling the aliases.