Date:         Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:51:19 -0500
Reply-To:     Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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From:         Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
Subject:      Re: Macro or Loop to minimize Syntax
Comments: To: Juan Pablo Sandoval <jpsandoval4275@gmail.com>
Comments: cc: Raynald Levesque <raynald.levesque@gmail.com>
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At 06:04 PM 1/29/2008, Juan Pablo Sandoval wrote:

>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 (var0750 = 1 and v0757 = 2) clean = 1.
>
>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.

At 07:21 PM 1/29/2008, Raynald Levesque suggested:

>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.

I don't think that'll quite do it, as the original logic required a 1
and a 2 value for some matched pair of variables, not simply for any
variables in the two sets. But, on the same assumptions, this should:
DO REPEAT varXXX0 = var0010 TO var0750
          /vXXX7   = v0017   TO v0757.
.  if (varXXX0 = 1 and vXXX7 = 2) clean = 1.
END REPEAT.

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