On 3/25/2015 8:48 AM, Frans Houweling wrote:
Hi,
quoting the manual on combining files:
When more than one input file contains a variable with a given name,
those variables must all have the same type (numeric or string) and,
*for string variables, the same width*.
For me the same width limitation is one of the worst pains with SPSS
(the other one being the total lack of introspection).
I would like to launch a people's petition to break compatibility with
SPSS, allowing different widths and just keeping the width of the one
in the first file encountered.
Unite!
frans
I agree completely! And I don't think it would break any reasonable
existing SPSS code for SPSS to silently make the string length in the
combined file of the equal to the longest of the strings, which would
prevent any data loss.
-Alan
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