Re: syntax failure

[John Darrington]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:48:07AM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote:
>
> For instance, if I run: pspp syntax.sps, I get:
>
> test.sps:10: aviso: (colunas 1-0, F campo)N?mero seguido por lixo.  
> (warning,number followed by garbage)
> test.sps:10: aviso: (colunas 6-5, F campo)N?mero seguido por lixo.  
> (warning,number followed by garbage)
>
> The default locale on my GNU/Linux is pt_BR.utf8. If I change it to only  
> pt_BR or remove the
> "set format = F9.3", everything works fine.
>
> syntax:
>
> set format = F9.3.
>
> data list notable list /age * height rank *.
> begin data.
> 10 12 11
> 12 13 13
> 13 14 12
> 12 12 10
> 9   9 10
> 10.3 10.2 12
> end data.
>

I can confirm similar behaviour.   However if I add "SET DECIMAL=DOT." to 
the topy of the syntex, then i works ok.
However, when I change the "."s to ","s in the BEGIN DATA block, the numbers 
don't get parsed, contrary to what I would have expected.

We need to carefully think over the intended behaviour.  There's a lot of 
potential conflict between the locale's number format, and the variable's 
format.


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