Re: Import data from other file formats and Histogram question

[Erik Frebold]

I'm importing using ppspire's File-Import Delimited Text Data. Select the file, 
import all cases, Forward, Forward, deselect the hyphen separator (pspp 
interprets the minus sign as a hyphen otherwise)(I also tried selecting the 
<space> separator, no difference), Forward, and Apply. Looks fine until the 
apply step, whereupon the errors appear. I've looked for hidden chars, but 
there seem to be only spaces and <CR>'s. 
Thanks for looking at this. 


-----Original Message-----

> Date: Mon Nov 16 11:33:28 PST 2009
> From: "John Darrington" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Import data from other file formats and Histogram question
> To: "Erik Frebold" <address@hidden>
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:34:11PM -0800, Erik Frebold wrote:
>      Did succeed to load the complete datafile by cutting/pasting all the 
> numbers into a texteditor (kludge alert..)  and saving to a new file. What 
> would that have stripped out? (the original file still produces gcc's "number 
> followed by garbage" error for every one of the 5000 values.  
>      The new .csv file that works contains 5000 items, but the successful 
> import into psppire contains only 3838. That's odd. 
> 
> Very odd.  Can you post the exact syntax that you are using to read the file, 
> and a copy of the file itself.  Then I'll try to shed some light on this.
> 
> J'
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normdataSet2.csv
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