Problem with Group Objects

[PhilW]

Group objects automatically upper case all names when the group is updated. This is usually fine as native variable names are not case sensitive. However if any variables include a string comparison then the comparison text is also made all upper case leading to a the comparison always being false.

Example,
city="Miami" -- Sometimes true,
by updating the group is converted to
CITY="MIAMI" -- Never true.

The variable city=CITY,
but the text "Miami" ne "MIAMI".

Eviews 7.1 build Nov 11, 2010

[EViews Gareth]

I want to ensure that this is what you're saying.

You have a group object with the auto-series:
CITY="Miami"

in it (that would essentially return a value of 1 or 0). When you update the group this changes to

CITY="MIAMI"

which then invalidates the auto-series.

Yep, I can see that would be a problem. I'll see if we can upper without quotes it.

[EViews Gareth]

The latest patch should fix this issue for you.