On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:40:22PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 06:35:37AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:48:40PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:37:20PM +0100, news wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to export to a csv file and get an error message, but > > don't see the error. > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\EB\save translate.sps.16-22: > erreur: SAVE > > TRANSLATE: Erreur de syntaxe dans 'OUTFILE': Fin de commande > attendu. > > > > Fin de commande attendu = end of command attended. > > > > SAVE TRANSLATE > OUTFILE="C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\EB\EB794x.csv" > > /TYPE=CSV > > /REPLACE > > /FIELDNAMES > > /CELLS=LABELS. > > > > > > > > I think you need to write it as /OUTFILE (with a leading slash). > > Gosh, that's a terrible error message for that problem. > > > It's also rather unfortunate that SAVE TRANSLATE *requires* the leading slash > on OUTFILE whereas for SAVE it is prohibited. > > However I seem to remember some years ago that was exactly how SPSS behaved.
Yes, the SPSS is awful and inconsistent and it seems that PSPP should behave the same way--for consistency! _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
