Thank you. Rob Messer <rmes...@intellisurvey.com> writes:
> 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 > > -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
