IBM PASW (SPSS) .sav User Attributes

For information on the parameters in this dialog that are common to all readers, see:

For information on the parameters in this dialog that are common to all writers, see:

A SAV dataset may contain encoding information in its header, or the encoding may be user-specified.

The following table shows the supported attribute types.

Name

The name of the attribute to be written.

Type

string

String fields store fixed length strings. The width parameter controls the maximum number of characters that can be stored by the field. No padding is required for strings shorter than this width.

number

Number fields store single and double precision floating point values. The width parameter is the total number of characters allocated to the field, including the decimal point. The decimals parameter controls the precision of the data and is the number of digits to the right of the decimal.

date

Date fields store date as character string with the format YYYYMMDD.

datetime

Datetime fields store datetime as character string with the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.