I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but PSPP has a test case that intentionally provokes this error message. I'm attaching the file it produces.
I guess the ultimate goal here should be to fix tiamo's package? On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:42 AM Ignácz, István <istvan.ign...@neticle.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I think this is not the usual topic on this list, excuse me if you find it > off-topic. > > I'm facing a tough bug in my software and I'm looking for some help to be > able to take the next steps. > > Our software generates sav files via tiamo's package: > https://packagist.org/packages/tiamo/spss > Usually, everything works fine, but in some cases, we generate malformed > files. In this case, SPSS crashes without any notice, however, PSPP at > least gives a useful error message: > Variable index n refers to long string continuation. > > I cannot reproduce this issue on my side, so I tried to reverse engineer > the PSPP codebase to find any cases when it could occur. So far not with > much luck. > > Could you help me with some example cases? > > Thanks for your help, > István >
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