Hi Ben, thank you for the information. The commands I mention in the previous email are terminal commands. Your file is kind of difficult because it contains:
a) two different character encodings (latin-1 and utf-8) for variable description and the actual data b) <CR><LF> within the text elements inside the variable data section Let me know if the procedure with perl and grep works. Friedrich Am 02.11.2014 um 19:03 schrieb Benjamin Oppermann <ben....@eml.cc>: > If you complete a survey that I designed for my thesis on this site: > http://studentenforschung.de/ > the results are gathered by the site in the form of these csv files. > There is an alternative file that seems to be output to csv format in a > different manner - the two are labelled "abc" and "012", but I really > don't see much of a difference. I attached the alternative file with > "012" > I am horrified at the programming of these guys and recommend everyone > to do their surveys somewhere else. > From that discussion, this must be where the problem is at: "At least > one survey website generates text files, intended for use with SPSS, > whose lines end in only CRs (not LF or CR+LF). PSPP does not understand > this format. SPSS's behavior is not well understood in this area. " > I'll try to reproduce what you did in Emacs, resp. the commands you > kindly provided. > Are they Emacs commands or terminal commands? > However I wonder why CR LF are not visible in my text editor (Kate from > KDE)... > Thanks, Ben > > > Am So, 2. Nov 2014, um 18:34, schrieb Friedrich Beckmann: >> Hi Ben, >> >> can you tell me how you produced the original csv file? There is some >> discussion >> about the handling of CR and LF here: >> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40605 >> >> Friedrich >> > <ver40-012.20.csv>
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