@cmd{GET} clears the current dictionary and active dataset and
replaces them with the dictionary and data from a specified file.
-The @subcmd{FILE} subcommand is the only required subcommand.
-Specify the system
-file or portable file to be read as a string file name or
-a file handle (@pxref{File Handles}).
+The @subcmd{FILE} subcommand is the only required subcommand. Specify
+the SPSS system file, SPSS/PC+ system file, or SPSS portable file to
+be read as a string file name or a file handle (@pxref{File Handles}).
By default, all the variables in a file are read. The DROP
subcommand can be used to specify a list of variables that are not to be
file on disk. Only the active dataset read from the file
is affected by these subcommands.
-@pspp{} tries to automatically detect the encoding of string data in the
-file. Sometimes, however, this does not work well encoding,
-especially for files written by old versions of SPSS or @pspp{}. Specify
-the @subcmd{ENCODING} subcommand with an @acronym{IANA} character set name as its string
-argument to override the default. The @subcmd{ENCODING} subcommand is a @pspp{}
-extension.
+@pspp{} automatically detects the encoding of string data in the file,
+when possible. The character encoding of old SPSS system files cannot
+always be guessed correctly, and SPSS/PC+ system files do not include
+any indication of their encoding. Specify the @subcmd{ENCODING}
+subcommand with an @acronym{IANA} character set name as its string
+argument to override the default. Use @cmd{SYSFILE INFO} to analyze
+the encodings that might be valid for a system file. The
+@subcmd{ENCODING} subcommand is a @pspp{} extension.
@cmd{GET} does not cause the data to be read, only the dictionary. The data
is read later, when a procedure is executed.
/SHEET=@{NAME '@var{sheet_name}', INDEX @var{n}@}
/CELLRANGE=@{RANGE '@var{range}', FULL@}
/READNAMES=@{ON, OFF@}
- /ASSUMEDVARWIDTH=@var{n}.
+ /ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH=@var{n}.
@end display
@cindex Gnumeric
cell containing the first datum for the variable.
If this cell is of string (text) format, then the width of the variable is
determined from the length of the string it contains, unless the
-@subcmd{ASSUMEDVARWIDTH} subcommand is given.
+@subcmd{ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH} subcommand is given.
The @subcmd{SHEET} subcommand specifies the sheet within the spreadsheet file to read.
There are two forms of the @subcmd{SHEET} subcommand.
If @subcmd{/READNAMES=OFF} is
used, then the variables receive automatically assigned names.
-The @subcmd{ASSUMEDVARWIDTH} subcommand specifies the maximum width of string
+The @subcmd{ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH} subcommand specifies the maximum width of string
variables read from the file.
If omitted, the default value is determined from the length of the
string in the first spreadsheet cell for each variable.
GET DATA /TYPE=PSQL
/CONNECT=@{@var{connection info}@}
/SQL=@{@var{query}@}
- [/ASSUMEDVARWIDTH=@var{w}]
+ [/ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH=@var{w}]
[/UNENCRYPTED]
[/BSIZE=@var{n}].
@end display
The @subcmd{SQL} subcommand is mandatory.
It must be a valid SQL string to retrieve data from the database.
-The @subcmd{ASSUMEDVARWIDTH} subcommand specifies the maximum width of string
+The @subcmd{ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH} subcommand specifies the maximum width of string
variables read from the database.
If omitted, the default value is determined from the length of the
string in the first value read for each variable.
[ENCODING='@var{encoding}']
[/ARRANGEMENT=@{DELIMITED,FIXED@}]
[/FIRSTCASE=@{@var{first_case}@}]
- [/IMPORTCASE=@{ALL,FIRST @var{max_cases},PERCENT @var{percent}@}]
+ [/IMPORTCASES=...]
@dots{}additional subcommands depending on ARRANGEMENT@dots{}
@end display
to the number of the first line to read: 2 to skip the first line, 3
to skip the first two lines, and so on.
-@subcmd{IMPORTCASE} can be used to limit the number of cases read from the
-input file. With the default setting, ALL, all cases in the file are
-read. Specify FIRST @var{max_cases} to read at most @var{max_cases} cases
-from the file. Use @subcmd{PERCENT @var{percent}} to read only @var{percent}
-percent, approximately, of the cases contained in the file. (The
-percentage is approximate, because there is no way to accurately count
-the number of cases in the file without reading the entire file. The
-number of cases in some kinds of unusual files cannot be estimated;
-@pspp{} will read all cases in such files.)
+@subcmd{IMPORTCASES} is ignored, for compatibility. Use @cmd{N OF
+CASES} to limit the number of cases read from a file (@pxref{N OF
+CASES}), or @cmd{SAMPLE} to obtain a random sample of cases
+(@pxref{SAMPLE}).
-@subcmd{FIRSTCASE} and @subcmd{IMPORTCASE} may be used with delimited and fixed-format
-data. The remaining subcommands, which apply only to one of the two file
-arrangements, are described below.
+The remaining subcommands apply only to one of the two file
+arrangements, described below.
@menu
* GET DATA /TYPE=TXT /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED::
[/IMPORTCASE=@{ALL,FIRST @var{max_cases},PERCENT @var{percent}@}]
/DELIMITERS="@var{delimiters}"
- [/QUALIFIER="@var{quotes}" [/ESCAPE]]
+ [/QUALIFIER="@var{quotes}"
[/DELCASE=@{LINE,VARIABLES @var{n_variables}@}]
/VARIABLES=@var{del_var1} [@var{del_var2}]@dots{}
where each @var{del_var} takes the form:
instead of terminating it. The ability to specify more than one quote
character is a @pspp{} extension.
-By default, a character specified on @subcmd{QUALIFIER} cannot itself be
-embedded within a field that it quotes, because the quote character
-always terminates the quoted field. With ESCAPE, however, a doubled
-quote character within a quoted field inserts a single instance of the
-quote into the field. For example, if @samp{'} is specified on
-@subcmd{QUALIFIER}, then without ESCAPE @code{'a''b'} specifies a pair of
-fields that contain @samp{a} and @samp{b}, but with ESCAPE it
-specifies a single field that contains @samp{a'b}. ESCAPE is a @pspp{}
-extension.
+The character specified on @subcmd{QUALIFIER} can be embedded within a
+field that it quotes by doubling the qualifier. For example, if
+@samp{'} is specified on @subcmd{QUALIFIER}, then @code{'a''b'}
+specifies a field that contains @samp{a'b}.
The @subcmd{DELCASE} subcommand controls how data may be broken across lines in
the data file. With LINE, the default setting, each line must contain
@vindex SYSFILE INFO
@display
-SYSFILE INFO FILE='@var{file_name}'.
+SYSFILE INFO FILE='@var{file_name}' [ENCODING='@var{encoding}'].
@end display
-@cmd{SYSFILE INFO} reads the dictionary in a system file and
-displays the information in its dictionary.
-
-Specify a file name or file handle. @cmd{SYSFILE INFO} reads that file as
-a system file and displays information on its dictionary.
+@cmd{SYSFILE INFO} reads the dictionary in an SPSS system file,
+SPSS/PC+ system file, or SPSS portable file, and displays the
+information in its dictionary.
+
+Specify a file name or file handle. @cmd{SYSFILE INFO} reads that
+file and displays information on its dictionary.
+
+@pspp{} automatically detects the encoding of string data in the file,
+when possible. The character encoding of old SPSS system files cannot
+always be guessed correctly, and SPSS/PC+ system files do not include
+any indication of their encoding. Specify the @subcmd{ENCODING}
+subcommand with an @acronym{IANA} character set name as its string
+argument to override the default, or specify @code{ENCODING='DETECT'}
+to analyze and report possibly valid encodings for the system file.
+The @subcmd{ENCODING} subcommand is a @pspp{} extension.
@cmd{SYSFILE INFO} does not affect the current active dataset.
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