Jason Stover <[email protected]> writes: > I need to combine multiple string values into a single > string, in a one-to-one way. For example, in the following > data set, there are two variables, each with two values: > > var1 var2 > ae f > a ef > > I don't want to just concatenate the values because > I would have aef in both cases.
If you strip the whitespace at the end of each string, this is true. If you retain the whitespace, then you have "aef " and "a ef", which are of course different. > I can work around this by using strtol, or something > like it. I don't see how strtol is relevant? > Two questions: > > 1. Is there some other function I should use? Other than...? > 2. Will this approach cause problems in the future if the union value > contains a long string? I'll fix up any problems with union value before I offer up the related changes. I'm working on that now (I've had a few hours a day to work on this, for the last few days). -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
