saving name of equation as a string object

[yoniboi]

i want to build a sub that one of the input variables is an equation.

i want to output a graph object that has the same name as the equation just with the ending eq_name_graph where eq_name is the equation name.

I would think this is possible i just cant find the function for it in the help.

I am using eviews 6

Thank You

Yoni

[EViews Gareth]

This actually can't be done in EViews 6 (at least I can't think of a way). You'll have to use EViews 7, where you can use the @name data member to retrieve the name.

[yoniboi]

another question i had was being able to loop through all the names of objects in a page (or workfile) so when i generate in a program a graph and it already exists the program crashes. I use delete a lot in the code, but if the object isnt there then the program crashes again.

i would rather put an if in a loop so it will look for the name and if it finds it then deletes it if not then moves on.

thank you

yoniboi

[EViews Gareth]

You can use @isobject to test whether an object exists.

[yoniboi]

ok,

thanks for the help

yoniboi