PSPP-BUG: [bug #21578] recode too restrictive

[John Darrington]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?21578>

                 Summary: recode too restrictive
                 Project: PSPP
            Submitted by: jmd
            Submitted on: Wednesday 11/14/07 at 08:19
                Category: Syntax Parser
                Severity: 5 - Average
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

The following syntax is accepted by spss, but not by pspp.

DATA LIST LIST /name (a10) gender  (a8) age *.
BEGIN DATA.
anntoinette f 23
fred m 34
bert m 34
mary f 56
END DATA.

STRING sex (A38) .

RECODE gender (MISSING='hermaphrodite')  INTO  sex .
RECODE age (34=Copy)  INTO  foo .

EXECUTE .

LIST.

It seems that pspp prohibits COPY for numeric variables and also prohibits
MISSING for string variables.  But I don't see any reasons for these
prohibitions.





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