PSPP-BUG: [bug #30690] DATETIME without width and quotes fails to import

[Andreas Lappe]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #30690 (project pspp):

I'm not sure if I can provide the appropriate aswers as I'm completely new to
both SPSS and PSPP and I'm not used to write syntax either.

I pasted the combined syntax+data-file from my survey into a new syntax
window and selected run->all. This brought up:

 The error is: Syntax1:12: syntax error: Input format DATETIME0.0            
                  
 specifies width 0, but DATETIME requires a width between 17 and 40.

When changed to DATETIME20 (John Darrington helped me with that) it still
brought up the following:

 Syntax1:70: data file warning: (columns 33-32, DATETIME field) Syntax error
in date field.
 Syntax1:71: data file warning: (columns 33-32, DATETIME field) Syntax error
in date field.
 Syntax1:72: data file warning: (columns 36-35, DATETIME field) Syntax error
in date field.
 Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 3-2, F field) Field contents are not
numeric.
 Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 36-35, F field) Field contents are
not numeric.
 Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 62-61, DATETIME field) Delimiter
expected between fields in date.
 Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 71-70, F field) Field contents are
not numeric.

The gui tells me there are 1770 messages in total, it displays 110 and I just
selected the first seven of them above.

Even though these messages come up, it loads them but the fields are wrong
(as in every line has a offset). 

That's where I switched to SPSS-demo, imported the file, wrote a .sav and
imported that into PSPP. Worked fine.

To your other questions: It is a DATA LIST FREE(TAB) and one line out of it
looks like that (I replaced Tabs my ' t ' to make the list a bit more readable
in this webview):

1 t  t  t 11 t surveyname t interview t 24-07-2010 14:22:05 t 1 t 2 t 3 t 2 t
3 t  t 2 t  t 1 t 1 t 2 t 2 t 1 t  t  t  t  t  t  t  t 1 t 1 t 2 t 1 t 3 t 2 t
2 t 1 t  t  t  t  t  t  t  t  t  t  t  t 1 t 2 t 2 t 1 t 1 t  t 

I hope that helps... if you need more informations, tell me.
All this was happening in PSPP 0.6.2 on Ubuntu (straight from repository).

For performance reasons I left the vm out now and build PSPP via Macports,
which brought up some more problems but with the .sav file it works fine.

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