@wread buggy?

[mamo]

Dear Eviews team,

I use Eviews 10 March 2018 build. At least in this version, the command @wread seems to be buggy:

1) @wread encloses lines in quotes which is not wanted, and it does so inconsistently. See example below: lines read from text1.txt are enclosed in double quotes, not so lines read from text2.txt. The double quotes cannot be easily removed by @replace, for instance, because this would also remove those double quotes which have been inserted on purpose in the text file to be read in.

2) @wread seems to skip lines with one single character at the beginning of a row. See text2.txt in the example below

Also, it seems that @wread has not been documented in the off-line help of Eviews.

Best, mamo

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' @wread encloses lines in quotes which is not wanted if @isobject("txt1") then delete txt1 endif ' Generate a text file with some typical SQL code text txt1 txt1.append Select VAR1 VAR2 txt1.append from MYDB txt1.append where VAR1 IN (X) txt1.save text1.txt string str1 =@wread("text1.txt") show str1 ' @wread is buggy: it skips sinlge characters at the beginning of a line! if @isobject("txt2") then delete txt2 endif text txt2 txt2.append H txt2.append W txt2.append Hello txt2.append World txt2.save text2.txt string str2 =@wread("text2.txt") show str2

[mamo]

... and furthermore, @wread removes commas in the original text, and includes text after a comma in double quotation marks automatically, see text3.txt and str3 in the expanded example code below. Appears to be a rather strange behaviour.
Could the Eviews team kindly correct this unwanted behavior of @wread?

Best, mamo

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' @wread encloses lines in quotes which is not wanted if @isobject("txt1") then delete txt1 endif ' Generate a text file with some typical SQL code text txt1 txt1.append Select VAR1 VAR2 txt1.append from MYDB txt1.append where VAR1 IN (X) txt1.save text1.txt string str1 =@wread("text1.txt") show str1 ' @wread skips single characters at the beginning of a line! if @isobject("txt2") then delete txt2 endif text txt2 txt2.append H txt2.append W txt2.append Hello txt2.append World txt2.save text2.txt string str2 =@wread("text2.txt") show str2 ' @wread removes commas! if @isobject("txt3") then delete txt3 endif text txt3 txt3.append Hello, txt3.append World txt3.save text3.txt string str3 =@wread("text3.txt") show str3