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From: | Michelle Parker |
Subject: | Re: Compare two data files |
Date: | Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:40:22 +1000 |
Hi John Thanks for your reply! FLIP seems to truncate the variable names to 8 chars, and remove the string values so that's not really an option. We did try exporting to text, but we need to get this working for our testers, and exporting and running the diff is quite complicated for them. It also seems that the txt export joins variable names together and breaks lines after 76 chars which makes it very hard to diff. Exporting to cvs seems to be the best option at the moment and comparing manually, as the expected/allowed differences in values are grouped at the end of the variables which makes other differences easier to spot. Tried to add DROP to the MATCH FILES to omit the 55 variables that are allowed to be different, but it crashes, so I just cleared these variables from the input files which makes MATCH FILES work well. The problem is the actual differences are not highlighted and they are often very difficult to spot manually and it is a pain to delete 110 variables by hand each time. Also it is a pain that Copy and Paste don't seem to work for us in the Syntax editor on Windows psppire 0.7.4. I was thinking about trying to use the SPSS Identify Duplicate Cases option, but I can't find any reference to this being available in PSPP. Anyway thanks very much for your suggestions! ciao mich On 03/08/2010, at 10:30 PM, John Darrington wrote:
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