Re: PSPP-BUG: Very quick report: Variable length calculation in importing delimited text data wizard

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:15:57PM +0000, Daniel Froud - HostelBookers wrote:
     Variable length calculation in importing delimited text data wizard
     
     When importing data only 1000 lines are used for preview.
     
     It automatically will calculate the width of the variables based on -  
only the first 1000 lines???
     
     What this can do is lead to truncation of your variable. My ID contains 12 
digits for example

That is true.


     Can you offer a feature / tickbox where it can scan through all your data 
to determine the maximum length?
     

I guess this could be done.  Obviously the user must then accept the extra 
delay whilst it scans  the (potentially
very large) dataset.
     
     
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