FORMATS: Allow setting formats of string variables.

[pspp-builds.git] / src / language / dictionary / formats.c

diff --git a/src/language/dictionary/formats.c b/src/language/dictionary/formats.c
index 9f943be214931d14f1c6265de20be0e8349e5885..718344acc63ed1037787c1ab6823507b7e2ae8dd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/language/dictionary/formats.c
+++ b/src/language/dictionary/formats.c
@@ -67,23 +67,18 @@ internal_cmd_formats (struct lexer *lexer, struct dataset *ds, int which)
   struct variable **v;
   size_t cv;
 
-  /* Format to set the variables to. */
-  struct fmt_spec f;
-
-  /* Numeric or string. */
-  int type;
-
-  /* Counter. */
-  size_t i;
-
   for (;;)
     {
+      struct fmt_spec f;
+      int width;
+      size_t i;
+
       if (lex_token (lexer) == T_ENDCMD)
        break;
 
-      if (!parse_variables (lexer, dataset_dict (ds), &v, &cv, PV_NUMERIC))
+      if (!parse_variables (lexer, dataset_dict (ds), &v, &cv, PV_SAME_WIDTH))
        return CMD_FAILURE;
-      type = var_get_type (v[0]);
+      width = var_get_width (v[0]);
 
       if (!lex_match (lexer, T_LPAREN))
        {
@@ -92,7 +87,7 @@ internal_cmd_formats (struct lexer *lexer, struct dataset *ds, int which)
        }
       if (!parse_format_specifier (lexer, &f)
           || !fmt_check_output (&f)
-          || !fmt_check_type_compat (&f, VAL_NUMERIC))
+          || !fmt_check_width_compat (&f, width))
        goto fail;
 
       if (!lex_match (lexer, T_RPAREN))