Date:         Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:13:37 -0600
Reply-To:     "Marso, David" <dmarso@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Marso, David" <dmarso@SPSS.COM>
Subject:      Re: write ascii file

Hauke,
How about:

DO IF $CASENUM = 1 .
WRITE OUTFILE "F:\Temp\Youroutfile.txt" / "descriptive text line 1" .
WRITE OUTFILE "F:\Temp\Youroutfile.txt" / "descriptive text line 2" .
WRITE OUTFILE "F:\Temp\Youroutfile.txt" / "descriptive text line 3" .
WRITE OUTFILE "F:\Temp\Youroutfile.txt" / "descriptive text line 4" .
END IF .
WRITE OUTFILE "F:\Temp\Youroutfile.txt" / ALL .
EXECUTE .

Works for me.
HTH,David Marso

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Date:    Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:50:13 +0100
From:    "Petersen, Hauke" <hauke.petersen@INTERACTIVEMEDIA.DE>
Subject: write ascii file

Hello all,

i want to write an ASCII-file, one line for every line of my working-file.

No big deal so far.

But i want to prefix that file with several lines, containing descriptive
text ...

descriptive text line 1
descriptive text line 2
descriptive text line 3
descriptive text line 4
data line 1 - written using write file
...
data line N - written using write file


There has to be a simple way to achive the result.


Using an ASCII-Editor to insert the text manually is not an option,
as i want to use it in a macro, automating things.


TIA, Hauke