X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ftransformation.texi;h=1ca2d22b297ba0727c1d089532ad3ac9312a14f4;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fpivot-table2;hp=5ea809e54f7e0ebd67bfeb343cd22000b29e759c;hpb=cf334edc03b5898ad364c98dfe22dcf8a634f671;p=pspp diff --git a/doc/transformation.texi b/doc/transformation.texi index 5ea809e54f..1ca2d22b29 100644 --- a/doc/transformation.texi +++ b/doc/transformation.texi @@ -579,13 +579,17 @@ The behaviour of the command is slightly different depending on whether it appears or not. If @samp{INTO @var{dest_vars}} does not appear, then values will be recoded -``in place´´. This means that the recoded values are written back to the +``in place''. +This means that the recoded values are written back to the source variables from whence the original values came. In this case, the @var{dest_value} for every mapping must imply a value which has the same type as the @var{src_value}. For example, if the source value is a string value, it is not permissible for @var{dest_value} to be @samp{SYSMIS} or another forms which implies a numeric result. +It is also not permissible for @var{dest_value} to be longer than the width +of the source variable. + The following example two numeric variables @var{x} and @var{y} are recoded in place. Zero is recoded to 99, the values 1 to 10 inclusive are unchanged, @@ -668,7 +672,7 @@ recode @end example @noindent Here we have two recodings. The first affects the source variable @var{a} and recodes in-place the value 2 into 22 and all other values to 99. -The second recoding copies the values of @var{b} into the the variable @var{z}, +The second recoding copies the values of @var{b} into the variable @var{z}, changing any instances of 1 into 3. @node SORT CASES