Hi Ben, > Thank you! If you deleted the variable description and removed the line > breaks before importing into PSPP, which program did you use for it? > How did you find the <CR><LF>? some look like line breaks in a text editor, > but aren't. Also I don't know how to find the variable descriptions in the > text file. > Ben
I did that with emacs but you can use the following sequence of commands a) Replace the <CR><LF> with a comma perl -p -e 's/\r\n/,/' ver40-abc.20.csv > a.csv b) Only use the lines which start with „Teilnehmer“. That are the lines which contain the variable data. You must delete the variable descriptions because the descriptions have a different character encoding. grep '^Teilnehmer' a.csv > b.csv Friedrich _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users