Hi Pedro, that's a good point. I'll try to figure that out. It seems to me that Epidata was not really developed for dealing with long text fields. Nevertheless, many questionnaires have such questions, e.g. a concluding question in which the respondent can comment on the contents of the questionnaire and this often leads to long and very interesting comments. It would ofcourse be nice if such and other long text answers could simply be processed with Epidatal. Maybe this will become more easy in a future release? Who knows. Bye and thanks, Ben.
Right - you would have to institute a practice of archiving the log file periodically into Word or something else without the limit and then empty the log file or delete it. This isn't ideal, of course, but many of us have had to deal with this problem. Interestingly, the EpiInfo/EpiData record format would permit coding a field length of 9999-makes you wonder what Andy Dean was thinking of back then. The solution is probably not that difficult, and I would certainly discourage trying to manage fields longer than 20 or so in Analysis. This is something to add to the wish list.
Jamie
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Hi Pedro, that's a good point. I'll try to figure that out. It seems to me that Epidata was not really developed for dealing with long text fields. Nevertheless, many questionnaires have such questions, e.g. a concluding question in which the respondent can comment on the contents of the questionnaire and this often leads to long and very interesting comments. It would ofcourse be nice if such and other long text answers could simply be processed with Epidatal. Maybe this will become more easy in a future release? Who knows. Bye and thanks, Ben.
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