Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:19:47 -0400
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From: "Tesiny, Ed" <EdTesiny@oasas.state.ny.us>
Subject: Re: Data manipulation in SPSS
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Sarah,
If the original variable is a string, you could use the SUBSTR function
in a compute statement. SUBSTR(a1,a2,a3)
A1 - Original string name
A2 - begin position
A3 - length
Ed Tesiny
EdTesiny@oasas.state.ny.us
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Sarah
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:35 PM
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Subject: Data manipulation in SPSS
Hello all,
Hopefully this question has an easy solution... but I just can't seem to
find how to do this.
I have 1 variable that contains 10 numbers, and each position can range
from 0 to 3. An example would be....
0113201201
Is there an SPSS function that can separate each position into its own
variable (somewhat similar to the 'text to columns' function in Excel)?
My goal would be to have 10 separate variables, keeping with the example
above, as:
0 1 1 3 2 0 1 2 0 1
Thanks so much, in advance!
Sarah
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