Date:         Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:06:41 -0500
Reply-To:     "Fry, Jonathan B." <jfry@SPSS.COM>
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From:         "Fry, Jonathan B." <jfry@SPSS.COM>
Subject:      Re: comments within commands .
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I suspect that something inside is replacing the comment by a blank, leaving the line entirely blank.  A blank line is a command separator.

Jonathan Fry
SPSS Inc.

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Catherine Kubitschek
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:42 PM
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Subject: comments within commands .

I'm trying to comment out part of a command in situ but I'm not having much
luck getting it to run.

match files file=Acad_013   /in=in013
            /table=Acad_Tce  /in=inTce
            /*   /table=Acad_2006 /in=in2006 */
            /by Id .

The error message I'm getting indicates that the comment is ending the
match files command.

I think I'm reading the Command Syntax Reference correctly but I must be
missing something.

"Use /* and */ to set off a comment within a command. The comment can be
placed wherever a
blank is valid (except within strings) and should be preceded by a blank."
- SPSS 14.0 Command Syntax Reference, p.257

Thanks in advance for any help.


Catherine Kubitschek         (Kubitschek.2@nd.edu)
Sr. Programmer/Analyst        574/631-3550
Institutional Research
210 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN  46556-5611