No, I did not include Textoptions format=variable.
I did read the that section and I didn’t understand what was being said. The example given focused on the treatment of a dollar format and effect of the two options
was clear. So, my misunderstanding. Thank you for correcting me.
Gene Maguin
From: Jon Peck [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 9:51 AM
To: Maguin, Eugene <[hidden email]>
Cc: SPSS List <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Format control on Save translate command
According to the doc, you should specify /TEXTOPTIONS FORMAT=VARIABLE to use the variable print formats. You can check those with DISPLAY DICT. Is that what you did?
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Maguin, Eugene <[hidden email]> wrote:
I’m using save translate to export a text (csv) file and I’d like to control formats in the output file so I specified formats for the to-be output vars. So …, per the save translate
documentation (p 1698, just above ‘Exceloptions subcommand’) I should get what I specified; however, I didn’t. I got 12 or 16 decimal places rather than my desired F7.5. Could there be a mismatch between command functioning and command documentation?
Gene Maguin
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