Ok, I have done that (although I didn't see a category called "wishlist" so I just put as "other", since it is really a feature request and not a bug). Thanks.
On May 23, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > It would be ideal if you would file this as a "wishlist" bug in > the tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp. That > way the request will not get lost. > > Rob Messer <rmes...@intellisurvey.com> writes: > >> John, >> >> Ok, that is good to know. So I guess consider this a feature >> request to add that to some future release. If the method >> sometimes returns undef because the file header doesn't have >> the info that then is reasonable enough, but at least we could >> show progress in most cases. Thank you, >> >> Rob >> >> On May 22, 2011, at 1:20 AM, John Darrington wrote: >> >>> It should be very straightforward. Most .sav files contain a header field >>> indicating the number of cases. However, occasionally we've encountered >>> files >>> which don't have this field. So the perl program would have to be prepared >>> to >>> handle this case. >>> >>> J' >>> >>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:16:26AM -0700, Rob Messer wrote: >>> We have been using the PSPP::Perl interface to read data from .sav files >>> into our database, and it works very well for that purpose. >>> >>> Sometimes the files we read are rather large, and so it takes some time >>> to load the data. We like to be able to show progress to the user who is >>> loading their data, so we need to know the total number of records to be >>> loaded. But right now, there doesn't appear to be any way to get the total >>> number of cases other than scanning through all the records. Is there any >>> way to add a method to the Perl API so that we could do something like this: >>> >>> my $pspp = PSPP::Reader->open($file); >>> my $case_count = $pspp->get_num_cases(); >>> >>> # then load cases to database and show percent complete at various >>> points... >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Rob >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pspp-users mailing list >> Pspp-users@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users >> > > -- > Ben Pfaff > http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
