I just added this feature: PSPP now allows matching string variables
to have different widths on ADD FILES, MATCH FILES, and UPDATE.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:59 AM Alan Mead <amead2@alanmead.org> wrote:
On 3/25/2015 8:48 AM, Frans Houweling wrote:
Hi,
quoting the manual on combining files:
When more than one input file contains a variable with a given name, those
variables must all have the same type (numeric or string) and, for string
variables, the same width.
For me the same width limitation is one of the worst pains with SPSS (the other
one being the total lack of introspection).
I would like to launch a people's petition to break compatibility with SPSS,
allowing different widths and just keeping the width of the one in the first
file encountered.
Unite!
frans
I agree completely! And I don't think it would break any reasonable existing
SPSS code for SPSS to silently make the string length in the combined file of
the equal to the longest of the strings, which would prevent any data loss.
-Alan
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