What freeware/floss tools are available to help load data into SPSS?

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Published on 2009-03-18T11:01:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 1:23 UTC
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I'm looking for a solution for producing SPSS format data files for loading into SPSS. The few offerings I can find are all commercial.

Has anyone experience with generating SPSS-format data files using open-source, freeware or home-grown solutions?

I'm not even sure that the file format is "open". Any hints appreciated (any language is fine, although java, perl or ruby preferred).

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