Date:         Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:21:56 -0500
Reply-To:     Raynald Levesque <raynald.levesque@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Raynald Levesque <raynald.levesque@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Macro or Loop to minimize Syntax
Comments: To: Juan Pablo Sandoval <jpsandoval4275@gmail.com>
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Hi,

Assuming variables var0010 var0020 ... var0750 are consecutive in the data
file
and v0017 v0027 ... v0757 are consecutive in the data file.

The command
COMPUTE clean=ANY(1,var0010 TO var0750) AND ANY(2,v0017 TO v0757).
does the job.

HTH

--
Raynald Levesque
www.spsstools.net



On Jan 29, 2008 6:04 PM, Juan Pablo Sandoval <jpsandoval4275@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm running a validation syntax such as this:
>
>  if (var0010 = 1 and v0017 = 2) clean = 1.
>  if (var0020 = 1 and v0027 = 2) clean = 1.
>  if (var0040 = 1 and v0047 = 2) clean = 1.
>  if (var0050 = 1 and v0057 = 2) clean = 1.
> ...
> ...
> ...
>  if (var0750 = 1 and v0757 = 2) clean = 1.
>
> As you can see it's a fairly long syntax, and as you can see var0010
> increases by 10 every step for 75 steps until reaching var0750. I don't
> know
> if there is some kind of syntax doing a loop of some kind to save space
> and
> get the same results.
>
> Regards.
>
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