Re: Importing values and labels?

[Karel Novotny]

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 07:33 +0000, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:24:46PM -0300, Karel Novotny wrote:
>      On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 14:35 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      > Karel Novotny <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      
>      > > Is there a simple way of importing values from a csv or other file, 
>      > > as opposed to typing them all up through the interface.
>      
>      > Short of that, I would suggest writing a script that transforms
>      > the CSV data into a series of VALUE LABELS or ADD VALUE LABELS
>      > commands.
>      
>      I am throwing it here once more because I am realizing I have near 300
>      values which means a day of work at least.
>      
>      If anyone has any suggestion about how to unify their syntax so I could
>      e.g. paste them into portable file (if not import properly), I would
>      appreciate it.
>      
> What's wrong with Ben's suggestion? 

I am sure it is a very good suggestion, but only for those with some
(probably basic) programming skills which I don't have.

karel 

>  A Shell/Perl/VB script to create bunch
> of ADD VALUE LABEL commands might not be the most elegent solution, but would
> take perhaps a hour to do.
> 
> J'
>