SPSS 13 does not support value labels longer than 60 characters. It does support string variables much longer than 255 characters. It does NOT support variable labels longer than 255 characters.
-----Original Message----- From: Jaap-Andre de Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wilson,Tom Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: systemfile: variable width At 20:10 22-04-2005, Ben Pfaff wrote: >"Wilson,Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am pretty sure that I understand what support for long variable > > names is, but what was meant by the "value labels" part of that? > >I don't remember the original context. PSPP supports value labels up >to 60 characters long at the moment, which matches the limit described >in the SPSS 12.0 documentation. Should we extend it? SPSS 13 should support them, but that version is not shipped in Holland yet.... We use pspp for webquestionnaires to generate systemfiles and it would be usefull to have longer labels, but a lot of users don't have the latest spss version (including myself). I don't think we are going to use the long var/val labels the next 2 -3 year. But if it is a small piece of work..... Groets, Jaap-Andre _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
