The error message is saying that you can't have value labels for a long string (> 8 bytes) variable, not that the label itself is too long.
This restriction was removed in SPSS 16.
In prior versions one workaround is to use AUTORECODE, which will create a numeric variable corresponding to the (long) string variable. By default the string values become the value labels, but you can, of course, change those.
HTH,
Jon Peck
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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Maximum Length of Value Labels
I'm attemptig to add some value labels via syntax and I'm receiving this
error message:
>Warning # 4484. Command name: ADD VALUE LABEL
>The (ADD) VALUE LABELS command has attempted to apply a label to a
variable
>the values of which are long character strings. The variable will be
>ignored.
How many characters can a value label be?
Is there any way to work around this problem?
I'm using version 14.0.1.
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