On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 08:49:30PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > Indeed, these files are wierd. They seem to use a single CR as a line > separator. I've never seen a file like that before - effectively both > files contain only one line.
I think that this (CR as new-line) is the convention that old versions of Mac OS used. I am very confused about how SPSS handles new-lines. It clearly handles files that use CR+LF or LF only as newline. I also know from an earlier bug report (see commit adb78c1da5de "Do not treat isolated CR in input data as new-line.") that SPSS does not treat a CR by itself as a new-line. But I do not know how it could handle both CR by itself as part of a line and as a new-line. We could invent various heuristics to try to figure out the new-line in use. For example, we could decide that the first CR, LF, or CR+LF in a file is the canonical new-line for that file. (I think that would handle the case reported in commit adb78c1da5de, because I think that only had a few CRs in the middle of the file.) But I'm really not sure what to do, honestly. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
