John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:40:51AM +0000, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Numeric and short string sets of value labels may contain any number > of entries. Long string sets of value labels may not contain any > value labels at all, due to a corresponding restriction in SPSS. In > PSPP we could easily eliminate this restriction, but doing so would > also require us to extend the system file format in an incompatible > way, which we consider a bad tradeoff. > > System files could still support value labels for long strings. The > restriction however would be that the keys for those labels could not > be more than 8 bytes long.
I don't know how other readers would interpret such labels, since they don't appear in system files written by SPSS. We could try them and find out, I guess. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
