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Add a command terminator (a period) at the end of the
preceding line.
If the status bar indicates "Transformations Pending " click on Run Pending Transformations.
Review the message in the log of the Output window.
I have also experienced situations where SPSS gets confused and does not recognize changes
in a syntax file; it is as if SPSS continued to use the original syntax. Closing and
restarting the software corrects those problems. |
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basis but fails when called via INCLUDE |
The syntax rules of the 2 run modes are slightly different. The main
difference is that :
Commands in an included file must
begin in column 1,
continuation lines must be
indented at least one column.Thus
the following works in immediate (direct) mode:
DO IF (var1 > 0).
COMPUTE var2=var1*2.
END IF.
but it does not work in the Included mode because COMPUTE does not start
in column one. An alternative is to use a + or a - in the first column. The following
would work
DO IF (var1 > 0).
+ COMPUTE var2=var1*2.
END IF. |
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| When you first create a vector say using VECTOR a(20F8.0)
/b=var1 TO var20. You can refer to each element using a LOOP for instance:
LOOP cnt=1 TO 20.
COMPUTE a(cnt)=a(cnt)*2.
COMPUTE b(cnt)=b(cnt)+15.
END LOOP.
As soon as you run a procedure or an EXECUTE, the vectors are no longer available. If
you need them again, you must redefine them but this time the command is different for the
vector "a" because the variables a1 TO a20 already exist.
You must use VECTOR a=a1 TO a20 /b=var1 TO var2. |
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| If the calculation of the value tested is ok, then insert an
"EXECUTE." in the line above the SELECT IF. See also When to use EXECUTE. |
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| When I try, using syntax, to save a
.sav file that already exists, I get a warning that the file already exists and that
SPSS has renamed the file by placing a number on the end of the file name, e.g.
SAVE OUTFILE= 'Total.sav'
results in
total_1.sav being saved.
I really do want to save over the old files. Is there anyway to work around this
"feature".
Comments: This problem exits in
versions 10.xx and has been heard in version 11.
*** Possible solution no 1.
CACHE.
EXECUTE.
SAVE OUTFILE= 'Total.sav'
*** Possible solution no 2.
SAVE OUTFILE='c:\temp.sav'.
EXECUTE.
SAVE OUTFILE= 'Total.sav'.
EXECUTE.
ERASE FILE='c:\temp.sav'.
See also AnswerNet AnswerNet id=100007792 |
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| One way this error occurs is when you have a BEGIN DATA - END
DATA block in your syntax and the END DATA does not start in the first column of the
line. To get rid of the message in the Processor Area of the status bar, place the
cursor over the END DATA command and run that line., |
