bugPSPP - Bugs: bug #20582, Support value labels for long...

 
 

bug #20582: Support value labels for long string variables.

Submitted by:  John Darrington <jmd>
Submitted on:  Wed 25 Jul 2007 01:40:19 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 1 - Wishlist
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: Post-0.6.0
Effort: 0.00

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Sun 07 Jun 2009 10:43:21 AM UTC, comment #5:

Value rep branch has been merged now, so I'm closing this item.

John Darrington <jmd>
Project Administrator
Mon 25 May 2009 05:25:06 AM UTC, comment #4:

I've pushed support for value labels on long string variables to the value-rep branch.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Project Administrator
Thu 26 Mar 2009 02:40:59 PM UTC, comment #3:

>Recent spss versions now support labels for long string variables.


>The attached patch seems to read them ok from system files.


Thank you for doing this!

>As I believe Ben's in the process of making some major changes to
>the way values are stored, I think it'll be best to apply this
>change after that.


I'd appreciate that, thanks.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Project Administrator
Wed 25 Mar 2009 11:06:28 PM UTC, comment #2:

Recent spss versions now support labels for long string variables.
The attached patch seems to read them ok from system files.

However supporting them internally will require some changes to the pspp core library. As I believe Ben's in the process of making some major changes to the way values are stored, I think it'll be best to apply this change after that.

Also attached are some sample system files.

(file #17800, file #17801)

John Darrington <jmd>
Project Administrator
Wed 25 Jul 2007 04:05:12 AM UTC, comment #1:

One issue that occurred to me just now is that value labels may become less useful as strings become longer, because longer strings are more descriptive by themselves.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Project Administrator
Wed 25 Jul 2007 01:40:19 AM UTC, original submission:

Like other software, we don't allow strings longer than 8 bytes to have value labels. We could allow this, except that the system file format doesn't support it. Bug #20564 discusses some of the issues.

John Darrington <jmd>
Project Administrator

 

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Attached Files
file #17801:  longstringlabels.tar.gz added by jmd (2KiB - application/x-gzip)
file #17800:  long-string-labels.patch added by jmd (3KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sun 07 Jun 2009 10:43:21 AM UTCjmdStatusNone=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 25 Mar 2009 11:06:28 PM UTCjmdAttached File-=>Added long-string-labels.patch, #17800
      Attached File-=>Added longstringlabels.tar.gz, #17801
    Wed 25 Jul 2007 01:41:16 AM UTCjmdReleaseNone=>Post-0.6.0

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