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Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:57 am**

Hi Eviews users,
I am very puzzled by a strange results eviews 6 gives me: I want to access element "@first+t" (where t is a predefined scalar) of series x...

the same command :

scalar pr=@elem(x,"@first+t")

will give the right result in one workfile, and 0 in the other workfile, even if in both files the series x has no Na and obviously it has a finite value for the obsrvervation @first+t....is my syntax wrong in any way? can this be a bug?
If any of u has any idea of what's going on please let me know...

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:09 am**

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scalar pr=@elem(x,"@first+t")

isn't proper syntax for the @elem command. Possibly what you want to do is:

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%date = @otod(t+1)
scalar pr = @elem(x, %date)

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:11 am**

I should also note that you can actually do:

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scalar pr = x(t+1)

although I don't recommend this, since it is confusing when using it with:

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series pr = x(t+1)

since the first example access the t+1th element of X, the second example access the t+1th lead of X, and it can be confusing to figure out which one you're doing.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:14 am**

Thanks!
I had the feeling that I was missing something stupid... :D

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