Date:         Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:20:33 -0800
Reply-To:     Ron Smith <rsmith@PCC.EDU>
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From:         Ron Smith <rsmith@PCC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sequential variable names
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At 01:29 PM 01/05/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>
> Hello all:
> Has anyone a way to automate this aspect of constructing the data file that
> avoids manually entering each of the (n) variable names with something like
> an ascending numeric marker ?
>
> Thanks in advance to all that respond!!


I don't know how to do it in SPSS, but in SAS it would happen in the input
statement and would go something like:

input @10 (or whatever column number they start with)
(lvstyl1-lvst180) (number of variables*varlength) for example (170*1.) for a
numeric variable of one column or (170*$1.) for a string variable of one column
width;

Pretty sure SPSS should have something like that, and being a novice SPSS user,
would
like to know myself.

Also, are there any good third party SPSS programming language references?

Ron
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