Re: casereader numbering

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:13:31PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > One thing that would make it easier would be a function of the form
>      >
>      >  struct casereader * append_case_numbers (struct casereader *cr);
>      >
>      > which returns a new casereader which is identical to CR except that it
>      > has one extra column which contains the ordinal number of each case.
>      
>      Here is a patch to try.  I haven't had a chance to test it, but I
>      think that it should work.  If it works for you I'll push it to
>      the repository.
>
> On initial tests, it appears to work fine, except that I would have
> expected casereader_get_value_cnt on the new casereader to return 1 more
> than that of the old one.  But that's not what I am experiencing.

Er, I would expect that too.  On inspection, the code looks
correct; I don't see how casereader_get_value_cnt() could return
value different from that.  Huh.
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