PSPP-BUG: [bug #40864] When a variable has no label, DISPLAY DICTIONARY puts the "Format:" line in it's place

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                 Summary: When a variable has no label, DISPLAY DICTIONARY
puts the "Format:" line in it's place
                 Project: PSPP
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 10 Dec 2013 04:07:50 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 5 - Average
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

When a variable does not have a label, the output of "DISPLAY DICTIONARY"
places the "Format:" line in the label's place.

The call is (separator is a tab, will be mangled):
# /usr/bin/pspp -b -O format=csv -O separator="   " pspp-meta.syntax >
demo-no_varlabel.txt

I tried the standard output format as well, it provides the same result.

with pspp-meta.syntax:

GET FILE="demo-no_varlabel.sav"
DISPLAY DICTIONARY

The output is:

Variable        Description             Position
Var0001 Format: F1.0            1
        Measure: Scale
        Display Alignment: Right
        Display Width: 8
Var0002 Has Label               2
        Format: F1.0
        Measure: Scale
        Display Alignment: Right
        Display Width: 8

Var0002 "Has Label" gets written properly,
Var0001 without a label should be:

Var0001             1
        Format: F1.0
        Measure: Scale
        Display Alignment: Right
        Display Width: 8

This happens with version 0.8.1.
I have looked the bug list's archives since August, this at least has not been
reported recently.

The "demo-no_varlabel.sav" file is attached.

I will happily provide more info and do testing on request.





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Date: Tue 10 Dec 2013 04:07:50 PM UTC  Name: pspp-meta.syntax  Size: 51B   By:
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