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Dear Tom, I want to export forecasted series to an rat file. However I want to add a time stamp to the forecasted series to see how the forecast has changed when new data has arrived. So I want to append the series forecast05.01.19 than forecast06.01.19 and so on to the same file. The labeling of the series with todays date should work automatically. How do I do that? Function %today() does not attach todays name.
Thanks in advance

%dateandtime() will return the current date and time, and you can hack the information out of that. (I believe the date is coded in what's the most common coding for a date in your country)---for the U.S. it comes in as mm/dd/yyyy.

compute today=%dateandtime()
disp %mid(today,1,2)+"_"+%mid(today,4,2)+"_"+%mid(today,9,2)

gives

06_07_19

You can't use .'s in a name---use _ as punctuation if you want it.