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I am trying to open a CVS file which is transposed into rows. I have sucessfully used the "byrows" arguement in my wfopen function, but the mnemonic name I want is included in the second column rather than the in the first. Is there a way to open a CSV file by row and use the second column to name the series?

Yes, Step 3 of the dialog allows you to specify how many header rows there are, and which row the names are in.

By the time you get to Step 3, you've already told EViews to transpose the data, so the columns are now rows.

I should have been clearer. I need this to run automatically as part of a program. Thus far I have the following...

wfopen(d=new) "s:\DDLdownload\equitymsri.da.csv" byrow

The program is defaulting to using the first column as my series names. I need the second column.

Do it using the interface, then look at the command capture log to view the command line form. It will be something using the colhead= argument and the names= argument.

I can't figure it out, and I'm being asked by my superiors to stop spending time on this. Please let me know if there is a straightforward answer to this... Screenshot attached.

I need my series to be named according to column B and dated according to row 1

Can you provide the Excel file?

Here is the file

wfopen test.csv byrow colhead=2 namepos=last

Excellent! Thanks very much!