specifying response values with squiggly brackets

[jfc]

I think this might be the same issue as was described in a previous post: http://www.empirisoft.com/support/showthread.php?t=1298

I expected to see the specified {} value if the selection was checked, and the missing data value (99 or whatever) if the item was not checked.

Whether or not it's "technically" a bug, it's a real problem from the experimenter's standpoint, because using the squiggly bracket method on multiple response items (without the r parameter) produces meaningless data.

At any rate, the current Help files do not make the "explicitness" clear; it only says you can specify an alternate value for a given response item, and not what happens when the item is not selected. I hope you'll at least update the help files to clarify this.

Thanks!

[jarvis24]

Thank you for the feedback--I agree totally. At the very least we will update the documentation for the next version. Hopefully, we can think also of a way to deal with this while maintaining backward compatibility for anyone who counts on the program to act this way. Unfortunately we need to consider that because we don't have any way to know if such users exist.