Re: PSPP-BUG: PSPP CVS Build

[John Darrington]

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.

J'


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