Merlinco Survey software
UPDATES: Latest enhancements to MERLIN

Date

Feature

16.05.12 Highest CARD NUMBER allowed increased to 32000, and number of card types limited only by RECORD LENGTH
28.03.12 Format CDT can change delimiter character used in CSV listings
07.02.12 Label control <Y> now works without format HAL if no numbers and only one type of percentage shown
11.01.12 new statements GLOBAL SCORE x=(n1,n2...), and SCORE x $var1,var2...=(n1,n2...),
03.01.12 wildcards allowed in RCP INPUT, e.g. INPUT=data\*.txt,
22.12.11 bold italic and underline controls can be used with XLSTAB macro
22.12.11 redefinitions of V/H/X labels can use $$ to refer to previous definitions, e.g. x$q1=$$/1-5 + ...,
02.12.11 New RCP USEHEAD allows CSV / XLS field names references even in incompatible data files
02.12.11 CSV / XLS fields may now be referenced by letter or name
02.12.11 Maximum length of variable names increased to 64
23.11.11 Function %NUM can now be used with wvars
24.05.11 Number of iterations in *FOR loop increased from 100 to 1000
08.04.11 Label control Y now allows replacement of percentages with numbers in selected columns without using format HAL
19.11.10 Limit on number of fields in CSV/XLS(X) data files increased to 4096
17.11.10 Maximum number of table columns with RCPs CSVTAB/XLSTAB increased to 322
11.11.10 New LIST HEADER statement generates row header in listings generated with XLSRPT or CSVRPT
07.10.10 Up to 1500 worksheets allowed with XLSTAB=3 (Excel capacity varies)
14.09.10 New label controls <FB> and <FI> to switch bold or italic text on/off in MTW, e.g. <FB> bold on <FB> bold off
07.09.10 ASCII record length limit increased to 99,999
07.09.10 New RCP MEMORY allows larger stages
07.09.10 “xlsx” suffix supported throughout MERLIN for both Excel 2007 and 2010
07.09.10 New format BTL to output blank lines when no calls have TTS
07.09.10 Format EWS=2 uses Effective Weighted Sample to calculate SIG/TTS/TTT
03.03.10 XLSRPT and XLSTAB now output files with suffix "xlsx" if using Excel 2007
02.02.10 New parameter (I=n) in *DATA statements to ignore n characters at start of each element (e.g. ref.no.)