Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 2

[Ricardo Mejias]

I inserted STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5). in the code and the error message went away and this new variable did get all the digits beyond 5 truncated.

What confused me is that the original ResidenceZipcode showed on the variables table to be a string variable.  I assumed that the source variable, not the resulting variable is what had to be a string variable and that it would make the resulting variable automatically a string variable too.  I am a former SAS programmer, and that is how it was in SAS.

Thank you very much for the help.

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   1. Re: Error Message on SUBSTRG String Function (Frans Houweling)


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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 22:07:43 +0100
From: Frans Houweling <fhouweling@email.it>
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Subject: Re: Error Message on SUBSTRG String Function
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Hi Ricardo,

  ResidenceZipcodes is a new variable here, and is therefore assumed to
be numeric.

Unless it was your intention re-assign to ResidenceZipCode, you need to
declare the variable as a string:

STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).

HTH

frans


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