Preprocessor issue with mensual dates with month > 9 passed to daynre into macrovariables

I think I just stumbled into an interesting bug while passing macrovariables containing mensual dates to dynare.

In a very simple mod: SimpleMod.mod

I have (a dummy model) and the instruction: Toto = @{MensualDate};

I call this .mod with dynare as follows: dynare('SimpleMod.mod', '-DMensualDate="2005M10"');

And get an 'invalid expression' error on SimpleMod.driver because what gets written in the driver for the Toto = @{MensualDate}; instruction is : Toto = dates('2005M1')0;

2005M9 works, 2005M11 results into Toto = dates('2005M1')1; and 2005M12 results into Toto = dates('2005M1')2;

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Thanks @Ugo, I confirm the bug.

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Hi @sebastien,

So, I downloaded the latest snapshot of unstable I found (dynare-7-unstable-2024-01-26-1809-b956a225) assuming the fix would be in there. It seems to be indeed because my simple example gets fixed.

But using this version of unstable to run all my other codes I encounter this error message :

Error using select_x13_binary (line 73) Can't find X13 binary

Error in x13/run (line 26) x13b = select_x13_binary();

Error in x13/subsref (line 72) feval(S(1).subs, o);

We do happen to rely on your packaged version of x13 for a few data prep steps. Did the snapshot omit to include it? Is there anything I have to do on my side?

Thanks a lot in advance

Thanks for confirming that this issue is fixed.

Concerning the X13 issue: since it is a different problem, we should discuss it elsewhere. I’m going to send you an email.