Date:         Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:57:31 +0200
Reply-To:     Spousta Jan <JSpousta@CSAS.CZ>
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From:         Spousta Jan <JSpousta@CSAS.CZ>
Subject:      Re: String Transformation
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Hi,

Just a remark: the second line of the code can be even simpler, I think:

string tab (a1) .
compute tab=string(9,pib1).
etc.

I am still missing \t and \n and similar abbreviations in SPSS...

Greetings

Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Simon Freidin
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:16 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: String Transformation

here's another way

string tab (a1) .
compute tab=string(number('9',n2),pib1).
compute
x=concat("if",tab,"y=",tab,"""",ltrim(rtrim(y)),"""",tab,"code=",tab,"."
).


At 02:39 AM 30/09/2005, Arthur Aguirre wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have the following compute function:
>
>comp x=concat("if"," ","y=","""",ltrim(rtrim(y)),"""","","code=","
>",".").
>
>It would be useful to insert tab spaces verses singles spaces (" ").
>Anyone know if this is possible?
>
>Thanks.
>Arthur
>
>
>
>
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