SAVE TRANSLATE Command

[Elio Spinello]

Hi,



I am using a SAVE TRANSLATE command with a RENAME subcommand that runs
properly in SPSS. In PSPP, the RENAME command is producing an error whenever
a field name containing one or more spaces is specified, such as in the
example below. If I remove the spaces, it runs properly, but with spaces it
produces an "expecting variable name" error. I have tried with and without
parentheses and gotten the same result.



I'm not sure if this is a bug or if there is an idiosyncrasy to the syntax
that I am missing.



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[Ben Pfaff]

Post by Elio Spinello
I am using a SAVE TRANSLATE command with a RENAME subcommand that runs
properly in SPSS. In PSPP, the RENAME command is producing an error whenever
a field name containing one or more spaces is specified, such as in the
example below. If I remove the spaces, it runs properly, but with spaces it
produces an "expecting variable name" error. I have tried with and without
parentheses and gotten the same result.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or if there is an idiosyncrasy to the syntax
that I am missing.

Thanks for the report. This is a bug because, before you pointed it
out, I hadn't known that SAVE TRANSLATE allowed variable names that
aren't otherwise allowed by SPSS.

I'll fix this when I can.