There is an example script to do this very task in the scripting chapter of the Data Management book.

-----Original Message----- From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Ristow Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:05 PM To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Filename with datevalue

At 02:27 PM 5/14/2004, Kraan, Egon wrote:

>I need to be able to save a file where part of the file name is julian date >value. Does anyone have a script, macro, syntax, or anything else that can >handle this? > >SAVE OUTFILE='C:\dir\filename0413501.sav' > /COMPRESSED. > >where 0413501 is updated based on the actual datevalue.

See my posting "Re: file with actual date and time", Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:22:26 -0500. Here's the core part of that posting. You'll have to modify it to get date in Julian form, rather than the form "01-APR-2004 14-15" (where "14-15" is hour and minute, because file names cannot contain colons).

>This is a 'scripting' problem: you want the SPSS syntax to be >modified, depending on something that happens when the program *runs*. >There are two solutions, I imagine. One would use real scripting, with >the Sax Basic language. The other takes advantage of a quirk of