I had indeed come across that, which is awesome, except for my data analysis, I have to have the responses in the multiple choice question format, and not a text field type...

So I'm hoping for a solution that uses Multiple Choice question type....

I think this is a good candidate for a custom question theme. I'll see what I can put together over the weekend.

This would be an awesome feature!

Yes, it would.
But in my opinion LS shouldn't get lost in fulfilling each single wish, but instead concentrate on the real important things: Developping and adding features which are requested for a long time, like loops or dynamic lists or a better system to group questions on a page.

Your problem can be easily solved by a few lines added to the syntax file of SPSS.
1. restructure to categorical:
STRING #tmpstr(A200).
COMPUTE #tmpstr = Q1.
COMPUTE #tmpstr = CONCAT(#tmpstr,",").
* here max number of items, example 20
VECTOR Q2(20,f4).
LOOP #i = 1 to 20.
- COMPUTE #dash = CHAR.INDEX(#tmpstr,",").
- COMPUTE Q2(#i) = NUMBER(CHAR.SUBSTR(#tmpstr,1,#dash-1),f10).
- COMPUTE #tmpstr = CHAR.SUBSTR(#tmpstr,#dash+1).
END LOOP.
EXECUTE.


2. to binary
STRING #tmpstr(A200).
COMPUTE #tmpstr = Q1.
COMPUTE #tmpstr = CONCAT(#tmpstr,",").
* here max number of items, example 20
VECTOR Q2_(20,f2).
LOOP #i = 1 to 20.
- COMPUTE #dash = CHAR.INDEX(#tmpstr,",").
- COMPUTE #w = NUMBER(CHAR.SUBSTR(#tmpstr,1,#dash-1),f10).
- COMPUTE Q2_(#w) =1.
- COMPUTE #tmpstr = CHAR.SUBSTR(#tmpstr,#dash+1).
END LOOP.
EXECUTE.


Or an EXCEL macro with the same logic.

But of course, if Tony will create a question theme for it, just better.

Joffm