Re: Long-name/short-name complexity

[Ben Pfaff]

"Wilson,Tom" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have encountered some strange things when going back and forth between
> versions of SPSS that support long variable names and versions that
> don't.  As I recall, the situtation went a little like this.  We created
> a data file in SPSS 11.5 that had short variable names.  Someone else
> opened it in SPSS 12.0 and renamed the short variable names to long
> variable names that were completely different.  When the file was opened
> in SPSS 11.5 the variables did not appear to be renamed.

Interesting.  Perhaps SPSS does maintain separate long and short
names.  I'm not too happy about the idea of maintaining separate
names--it makes the code complex and ugly.

We will have to do some testing.
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