If you refer to the variable names marked in yellow, I guess it is capitalization. First all uppercase letters, then lowercase. Whether that is a standard sorting criterion or not is not standardized between software programs, but Unix culture – which I think is showing through in PSPP, but much less in SPSS? – would mandate that capitalization matters.
Now, PSPP *does* follow the SPSS convention in not allowing “TestVar” and “testvar” as two variable names in the same data set, because they are NOT different, whereas “TestVar” and “testvar2” would obviously appear in very different places in a sorted variable list, because they are QUITE different. Do I find that a little inconsistent? -> Oh yes 😊.
Best, Markus
Von: pspp-users-bounces+markus.quandt=gesis.org@gnu.org <pspp-users-bounces+markus.quandt=gesis.org@gnu.org> Im Auftrag von Elio Spinello
Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Februar 2024 22:20
An: espinello@rpmconsulting.com; 'Ben Pfaff' <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
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Betreff: Sorting by variable name
I may be missing something, but I'm noticing that when selecting variables from a list, the sort order by name does not produce consistent results. It appears that maybe there is a nested factor in the sort order, but I can't tell what it is. In this example, I am sorting by variable name but the results seem to sort a section of variables and then re-start alphabetically multiple times. This is version GNU pspp 2.0.0-pre3g2c9fe2 running under Windows 11.
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