Finding first valid data in group of series

[rloc]

@ifirst does not work with a group. I want to find the LATEST FIRST DATE across series of valid data in a group containing n series. Alternately, is there a way to loop over the names of series in a group and then I will check the @ifirst of each and find the greatest.

[EViews Gareth]

You'll have to loop.

A group loop looks something like:

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for !i=1 to g.@count %name = g.@seriesname(!i) 'do something with {%name} next

[rloc]

Thanks, I was going that way, but struck out using @members and trying to loop over the string names.