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long string variable split when reading in SPSS #236
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I experience the same problem. Can someone please have a look at this?
Interesting. It looks like SPSS is using internal names
LONGS0,LONGS1,LONGS2rather thanV2_Aetc. It looks like the variable-naming algorithm needs to be updated.solved in version 1.1.9
I was made aware that the issue is gone when reading the file with Pyreadstat, however, the issue is still there when reading the file with SPSS.
Actually I forgot about this difference, now I notice that even I wrote at the first description of this issue that Readstat reads correctly but SPSS does not.
hi
When writing a sav SPSS file with Readstat containing long string variables (long_readstat.sav), Readstat reads them correctly, however SPSS splits it (LongString2, "V2_A1", "V2_A2", "V2_A3"), this does not happen if the name of the variable is shorter (LongStr instead of LongString2).
For comparison the same content but written with SPSS (long_spss.sav) it opens correctly both in SPSS and Readstat.
original reports: Roche/pyreadstat#119
Roche/pyreadstat#118
longstring.zip