Re: SAVE TRANSLATE Command

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 03:40:44PM -0700, Elio Spinello wrote:
> I am using a SAVE TRANSLATE command with a RENAME subcommand that runs
> properly in SPSS. In PSPP, the RENAME command is producing an error whenever
> a field name containing one or more spaces is specified, such as in the
> example below.  If I remove the spaces, it runs properly, but with spaces it
> produces an "expecting variable name" error.  I have tried with and without
> parentheses and gotten the same result.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or if there is an idiosyncrasy to the syntax
> that I am missing.

Thanks for the report.  This is a bug because, before you pointed it
out, I hadn't known that SAVE TRANSLATE allowed variable names that
aren't otherwise allowed by SPSS.

I'll fix this when I can.