Variable name limitations

[admin]

It would be great if you could overcome the variable name limitations: 8 characters tops, all-caps alphanumerics — I really thought we had left that behind us… :/

[admin]

Hi sebwin,

that’s puzzling, I’m not sure where you encountered these limitations; I just tested variable names, there are no limitations. You can use any number of characters you want, they can include any kind of symbols (with exception of whitespaces, which are replaced automatically by underscores), you can even use Greek letters in an LaTeX-stlye (e.g., if you type \Alpha + \Omega, it will appear as greek symobls). Could you point us to the situation in which the system restricted you?

Cheers,

Timo

[admin]

Hi Timo

I was referring to the variable names read from SAV data sets. Upon loading these are cropped to 8 chars and uppercased. If, due to the cropping, the uniqueness of variable names is lost, the variable number is used instead, making them very cumbersome to identify.
Sorry I’ve not been more specific before.

Best regards,
Sebastian

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