RE: Long-name/short-name complexity

[Wilson,Tom]

I see what SPSS did as a bug and not a feature.  It should have renamed
the original variables.

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From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 11:34 AM
To: Wilson,Tom
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Subject: Re: Long-name/short-name complexity

"Wilson,Tom" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have encountered some strange things when going back and forth 
> between versions of SPSS that support long variable names and versions

> that don't.  As I recall, the situtation went a little like this.  We 
> created a data file in SPSS 11.5 that had short variable names.  
> Someone else opened it in SPSS 12.0 and renamed the short variable 
> names to long variable names that were completely different.  When the

> file was opened in SPSS 11.5 the variables did not appear to be
renamed.

Interesting.  Perhaps SPSS does maintain separate long and short names.
I'm not too happy about the idea of maintaining separate names--it makes
the code complex and ugly.

We will have to do some testing.
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