Re: Huge Text Files

[Ben Pfaff]

[Rob mentioned in private mail that the file in question is
Ed_Stats_Data.csv from Edstats_csv.zip available at
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog]

"Rob Malpass" <address@hidden> writes:

> Can someone have a go at getting [1] into pspp for me?   I've tried and had
> all sorts of problems:

I was able to import it successfully using File|Import Delimited
Text Data in the PSPPIRE GUI.  I didn't get good variable names
for the columns that have numeric names.  You could fix that
pretty easily just by editing the first line of the file with a
text editor before importing it.

> 2) pspp didn't seem to like scientific notation.

I didn't have a problem with that, can you be more specific?
>
> 3) For some reason it only imported 100k of the 200k rows.

I saw all the rows.

This sounds like a bug that we have only been able to spot on
Windows, and only intermittently.  It actually sounded like,
before, this was a bug that was fixed by bringing the computer's
OS up-to-date with Windows Update.  Is your computer up-to-date?
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Ben Pfaff 
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