I just added this feature: PSPP now allows matching string variables to have different widths on ADD FILES, MATCH FILES, and UPDATE.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:59 AM Alan Mead <ame...@alanmead.org> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
