On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 03:33:48PM +0200, Frans Houweling wrote: > I have had trouble reading MS Excel-generated csv files before discovering > the /ESCAPE option. In particular an Excel file like this: > > uniqID|company |score > 1 |Number one|76 > 2|"The Best" |91 > 3|Peerless Ltd |20 > > will become a csv file like this: > > uniqID;company;score > 1;Number one;76 > 2;"""The Best""";91 > 3;Peerless Ltd;20 > > which is read by GET DATA in SPSS (version 14, sorry) but in PSPP needs the > /ESCAPE option. > So my question is: shouldn't the escaping behaviour be the default, and a > /NOESCAPE option an extension?
I didn't realize that was the SPSS behavior! The documentation doesn't mention it. I pushed a commit to the PSPP repository that makes this the default behavior and removes /ESCAPE entirely. I don't see a reason to add a /NOESCAPE. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
