About Data Files and Formats

WinCross can process the following types of data:
ASCII format (fixed, comma separated *.csv and tab separated *.tsv or *.tab)
SPSS® (*.sav)
Microsoft® Office Excel formats (*.xls and *.xlsx)
For ASCII-fixed data files, WinCross permits a maximum of 131,072 characters per respondent and up to 800 records per respondent as long as the total characters do not exceed 131,072.
ASCII format (fixed, comma separated *.csv and tab separated *.tsv or *.tab) or Microsoft Excel data can be converted to SPSS (*.sav) format using File|Export Wizard.
All respondents must have the same number of records and all records must be in the same order for all respondents.
All variable-type data files have a 1,048,000 record limit.
Variables in Excel and SPSS files should be numeric or strings (for example, no currency-type or formula-defined variables). Date-type variables are acceptable. The imported date format will display in the data grid, however, internally, WinCross converts all date variables to the format dd-mm-yyyy for processing.
Variable names cannot use spaces, commas or WinCross Reserved Key Words such as NET, MEAN or SUB.
Code values can be alphanumeric, negative numbers and decimal numbers. Code values should not contain special characters (for example, @, #, &, !, ^, /, -, etc.).
WinCross allows long-character filenames having lengths up to 255 characters, including spaces, multiple periods and other characters (excluding colons, quotation marks, slashes, question marks, asterisks, angle brackets and pipe symbols). For example, The TLC-X Project.ORG.JOB is a valid filename.