Today I read in the new Quarterly data set, with 153 variables.
During the conversion from a featureless text file to an SPSS file, SPSS
frequently gave the warning,
"An invalid character was encountered in a field read under an A
format. In double-byte data such as Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text,
this could be caused by a single character being split between two
fields. The character will be treated as an exclamation point. "
Unfortunately, i don't have any easy way to figure out which data field was
creating this problem. The "Find" feature of SPSS (ver. 12) only searches
one field at a time. Is there an easy way to get SPSS to search the entire
database for exclamation points?
Bob
Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <
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Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
1268 Young Street, Suite #204
Research Center, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96814
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