Date:         Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:33:10 +0000
Reply-To:     Jeremy Miles <J.N.V.Miles@DERBY.AC.UK>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jeremy Miles <J.N.V.Miles@DERBY.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: data entry problem
Comments: To: edleddy@exis.net
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At 13:03 21/01/97 GMT, Edward Leddy wrote:
>I have a large ASCII file that is delimited by pipes ( ! ).  SPSS does not
>appear to see the pipes and will not put the data into the columns desired.
>Instead it disregards the pipes and mixes the contents of different columns of
>data. How do I get my data variables  to flow into the proper columns?
>
>
 
You could use something which has a more flexible ASCII reader (such as
Excel) to read in the data, and then read a file created with that with
SPSS, or you could load the data into a word processor, and do a search and
replace (be sure to save as text).
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