Error message: nonprinting character

[Deepa Bhat]

Hi everyone,

 

What does this message mean? I took out commas and dashes and apostrophes and I still get this message.

 

873 Frequencies One or more values of variable specify other  contained a non-printing character. Each such character was replaced by a space. The data file itself was not modified.

 

Thanks,
Deepa

[Deepa Bhat]

Hi everyone,

 

What does this message mean? I took out commas and dashes and apostrophes and I still get this message.

 

873 Frequencies One or more values of variable specify other  contained a non-printing character. Each such character was replaced by a space. The data file itself was not modified.

 

Thanks,
Deepa

[Peck, Jon]

The characters you took out are characters that print. The message refers to characters that do not print. The most common culprits are cr, lf, or other control characters embedded in a string value. Harmless unless you need to do things like test for equality.

Hth,
Jon Peck

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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Fwd: Error message: nonprinting character

Hi everyone,

 

What does this message mean? I took out commas and dashes and apostrophes and I still get this message.

 

873 Frequencies One or more values of variable specify other  contained a non-printing character. Each such character was replaced by a space. The data file itself was not modified.

 

Thanks,
Deepa