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bug #17257: In compatibility mode, limit lines to 80 characters

Submitter:  Ben Pfaff <blp>
Submitted:  Tue 01 Aug 2006 06:41:36 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Syntax Parser Severity:  3 - Ordinary
Status:  Invalid Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Before 0.6.0
Effort:  0.00
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Fri 04 Aug 2006 03:14:53 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hmm.  Well, maybe I'll drop this idea then.  In tests with an older SPSS version, it definitely dropped everything past 80 characters.  Maybe they've fixed this--although the manual I have for SPSS 13 still documents the limit on BEGIN DATA...END DATA.

Thanks for running the experiment.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Fri 04 Aug 2006 08:31:18 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I did some brief experiments using SPSS v12.

I did not find any evidence of an 80 character limit either within a BEGIN DATA block or elsewhere.

John Darrington <jmd>
Group administrator
Tue 01 Aug 2006 06:41:36 PM UTC, original submission:  

SPSS documents that lines with BEGIN DATA...END DATA are limited to 80 characters and actually truncates them to enforce it.  Some versions also enforce  an 80-character lines in syntax lines.  (We should find out whether this is true of the most recent versions.)  We should enforce similar limits in compatible syntax mode.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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