Date:         Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:14:32 -0400
Reply-To:     Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
Subject:      Re: DATA LIST error message
Comments: To: Marta García-Granero <biostatistics@terra.es>
In-Reply-To:  <192154625.20060819091010@terra.es>
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Dear Marta and all,

At 03:10 AM 8/19/2006, Marta García-Granero wrote:

>Could it be the period at the end of the last line of data (before the
>END DATA)?

Oh, good grief. Thank you. Of course, that's it.

(What's the period doing there? The text is from
a VALUE LABELS command, and I wrote the DATA LIST
to read the VALUE LABELS text so I wouldn't have
to type new data lines. Midnight programming:
ingenious, but not clear-headed.)

>RR> I ran into this in code I wrote for another
>posting. Why the warning
>RR> message? It looks to me like the data is in
>complete cases. SPSS draft
>RR> output:
>
>
>RR> NEW FILE.
>RR> DATA LIST FREE /ALLDEMO  (A3) DemgName(A10).
>RR> BEGIN DATA
>RR>      '1-1' 'Eth-Black'   '1-2' 'Eth-Asian'   '1-3' 'Eth-White'
>RR>      '1-4' 'Eth-Filpno'  '1-5' 'Eth-Hispan'  '1-6' 'Eth-Other'
>RR>      '1-7' 'Eth-NS'
>RR>      '2-1' 'Sex-Female'  '2-2' 'Sex-Male'    '2-3' 'Sex-UNKN'
>RR>      '3-1' 'Age <25'     '3-2' 'Age  25-35'  '3-3' 'Age  36-50'
>RR>      '3-4' 'Age >50'     '3-5' 'Age UNKN'.
>RR> END DATA.
>
>Happy weekend!
>Marta

And the same to you, with many thanks,
Richard