PSPP-BUG: [bug #30705] Decimal point and locale bugs in data parsing

[Ben Pfaff]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30705>

                 Summary: Decimal point and locale bugs in data parsing
                 Project: PSPP
            Submitted by: blp
            Submitted on: Sun Aug  8 15:28:36 2010
                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:

From: Michel Boaventura <address@hidden>

> The bellow syntax, from npar-sign, is behaving in a strange way.
>
> For instance, if I run: pspp syntax.sps, I get:
>
> test.sps:10: aviso: (colunas 1-0, F campo)Número seguido por
> lixo. (warning,number followed by garbage)
> test.sps:10: aviso: (colunas 6-5, F campo)Número seguido por
> lixo. (warning,number followed by garbage)
>
> The default locale on my GNU/Linux is pt_BR.utf8. If I change it to
> only pt_BR or remove the
> "set format = F9.3", everything works fine.
>
> syntax:
>
> set format = F9.3.
>
> data list notable list /age * height rank *.
> begin data.
> 10 12 11
> 12 13 13
> 13 14 12
> 12 12 10
> 9   9 10
> 10.3 10.2 12
> end data.

From: John Darrington <address@hidden>

> I can confirm similar behaviour.   However if I add "SET DECIMAL=DOT." to 
> the topy of the syntex, then i works ok.
> However, when I change the "."s to ","s in the BEGIN DATA block, the
numbers 
> don't get parsed, contrary to what I would have expected.





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