Date:         Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:49:40 +0100
Reply-To:     Spousta Jan <JSpousta@csas.cz>
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From:         Spousta Jan <JSpousta@csas.cz>
Subject:      Re: deleting single values
Comments: cc: doblerl@uni-muenster.de
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And perhaps even better (because you avoid error messages and calls of log function) is:

recode var1 (8 = sysmis).

Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Hector Maletta
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:44 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: deleting single values


One possibility is ordering an impossible operation for those values, such
as:

IF (VAR1=8)VAR1=LOG(-1).

As the logarithm of a negative number does not exist, the result will be
system missing.

Hector

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> On Behalf Of Lorenz Dobler
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> Subject: deleting single values
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> Hello list,
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> I want to delete single values from a numeric variable =>
> convert selected single values to system missing values. How
> can I do that via syntax ??
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> Hope you can help
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