PSPP-BUG: [bug #26517] Confusing error messages when parsing data files

[Ben Pfaff]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26517>

                 Summary: Confusing error messages when parsing data files
                 Project: PSPP
            Submitted by: blp
            Submitted on: Sun May 10 09:13:31 2009
                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:

address@hidden reported an error message like this from PSPP:

../FILE.TXT:19771350: warning: DELETE VARIABLES: Quoted string extends beyond
end of line.

The "DELETE VARIABLES" part is potentially confusing, since it reports the
name of the command that caused the data to be read, not the DATA LIST command
that specified what data to read.

(address@hidden didn't report this as a bug but asked what "Quoted string
extends beyond end of line" meant, so it probably isn't appropriate to CC this
bug to him/her.)




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