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Hi Tom,

I normally read in (irregular) daily data as:

OPEN DATA "path to file name"
DATA start end

How do I fill-in a numeric "end" value without actually specifying the numeric "end" in the DATA statement, i.e. is there a way to know the length-of-the-input-file from OPEN DATA and assign an "end" via e.g. COMPUTE?

Cheers,
Amarjit

Just leave it blank and it will read the entire file. You can then use

compute end=%allocend()

to find how long the data set was.

Great - many thanks!