Date:         Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:34:40 -0500
Reply-To:     Neila Nessa <neilanessa@MSN.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Neila Nessa <neilanessa@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: reading a delimited data file

>Record number: 1  Starting column: 2  Record length: 1024
Look at the FILE HANDLE COMMAND in particular the LRECL subcommand...
You need to give it an LRECL > 1024 perhaps about 3000 (you do the
counting!)
 
>HOWEVER -- I think that 6.1  does not allow (A30), so it has been
Richard, This is simply not a correct statement (the limit is A255 as
always!)
 
But I would say doing  Free file input on such a file is simply misguided!
 
Neila
 
Richard F Ulrich wrote in message
<7g04pk$eo8$2@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>...
>Bhuban Pandey (bhubanp@ADMIN.STEDWARDS.EDU) wrote:
>: Hi.
>: I'm trying to read a data file with the following syntax (using SPSS
6.1).
>: But, I get many warning messages (see at the bottom) causing the program
>: to stop.  I'm wondering whether you have any solutions.
>: Please help.
>: Thanks-----------------------Bhuban
>
>:    1  0  data list file='csesp99.txt' free
>:    2  0         /1  crs (a12) fac (a32)
>:    3  0             q1 (a30) q2 (a30) q3 (a30) q4 (a30) q5 (a30)
>
> < snip, rest of output >
>
> - since the messages that it gave you are all 'warnings', you
>should be able to do a FREQUENCIES  to see what you have -- either
>shorten your var-list and file, or SET the number of acceptable
>warnings to be a large number.
>
>HOWEVER -- I think that 6.1  does not allow (A30), so it has been
>truncating all of your variables at the maximum which is
>probably (A8).
>
>
>--
>Rich Ulrich, wpilib+@pitt.edu
>======