Re: [bug #20564] GUI crashes when attempting to enter value labels for long string variables

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:40:51AM +0000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      Numeric and short string sets of value labels may contain any number
>      of entries.  Long string sets of value labels may not contain any
>      value labels at all, due to a corresponding restriction in SPSS.    In
>      PSPP we could easily eliminate this restriction, but doing so would
>      also require us to extend the system file format in an incompatible
>      way, which we consider a bad tradeoff.
>
> System files could still support value labels for long strings.  The
> restriction however would be that the keys for those labels could not
> be more than 8 bytes long.

I don't know how other readers would interpret such labels, since
they don't appear in system files written by SPSS.  We could try
them and find out, I guess.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org