Hi,
I am writing a program that assembles a list of variables that I use to extract series from an external source. As an example, suppose my code looks like this
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%vars = _
"GDP " + _
"CPI " + _
"UNEMP"
As I am adding to and removing from this list on a regular basis and the variable names are often unobvious, I was hoping to be able to annotate them with a comment:
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%vars = _
"GDP " + _ 'Gross domestic product
"CPI " + _ 'Consumer price index
"UNEMP" 'Unemployment
But it appears the Eviews parser can't handle this and it throws an error. I know I could probably set something up in a table, or I could just list everything again in a commented block, but neither of those ways is good from a maintainability perspective. Is there another way to do what I want to do programmatically? I guess one way would be to make the description part of the string and split it from the variables in the program. Not sure how I would do that.
