Date:         Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:39:13 -0600
Reply-To:     Michael Bersick <mbersick@hotmail.com>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Michael Bersick <mbersick@hotmail.com>
Subject:      fixed dat format weirdness
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Hey all,
I am trying to save some data which has 52 records per subject as fixed
format so I can write an sps file to restructure it (The GUI I find totally
baffling in this regard, plus I need to rename the 52 versions of each of
the 9 variables anyway, so...).

ANyway, I saved the data, 3 lines of which looked like this in the sav file:
       5               7        10       8       80.0    784.5  342.4   2       20.0    465.5    64
       6               7        11      11      100.0   2059.6   1178   0         .0       .0    .0
       7               7        11      11      100.0   1195.8  763.7   0         .0       .0    .0



The so called fixed dat file ends up like this:
       5       710 8 80.0 784.5342.4220.0465.5 64
       6       71111100.02059.6 11780  .0   .0 .0
       7       71111100.01195.8763.70  .0   .0 .0



As you can see, the variables are not maintained in tandem; shorter
variables move  *forward* rather than *backward*, putting everything out of
whack.

I am trying this with 12.0.1 for the 1st time. It worked fine with 11.5
(Although it would always save to identical columns across data files, which
is annoying. Is there a way to specify the columns one wants to write
variables to?). Could that be the problem?

Very, very puzzled. Would gratefully appreciate any help.
Mike Bersick

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