Re: PSPP-BUG: PSPP CVS Build

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:54:52AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      > DATA LIST LIST /IP (a15).
>      > BEGIN DATA.
>      > 192.168.000.2
>      > 192.168.000.4
>      > 192.168.000.5
>      > 192.168.000.6
>      > 127.0.0.1
>      > END DATA.
>      >
>      > FREQUENCIES /VARIABLES=IP .
>      >
>      > it will report a single variable "192.168." with a frequency of 4,
>      > whereas it's in fact four variables each with a frequency of 1.
>      
>      It's what SPSS does and is documented to do.  We could support
>      frequencies on full long string variables pretty easily, as an
>      extension.  I guess it *is* desirable, as you say.
>      
> Oh well, I guess that's a candidate for something the
> --algorithm{compatible|enhanced} flag should control.  In the
> meantime, let's at least make sure that our documentation explicitly
> mentions this rather unintuitive behaviour.

I'm going to try to work on this tonight.
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