Date:         Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:09:38 -0500
Reply-To:     Rick Oliver <oliverr@us.ibm.com>
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From:         Rick Oliver <oliverr@us.ibm.com>
Subject:      Re: Problems looping in SPSS19
Comments: To: Alexa <alexan@UALBERTA.CA>
In-Reply-To:  <201109212255.p8LJamKO000475@waikiki.cc.uga.edu>
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Move the COMPUTE statement out of the DO REPEAT loop, and put it before
the DO REPEAT loop.





From:   Alexa <alexan@UALBERTA.CA>
To:     SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date:   09/21/2011 05:56 PM
Subject:        Problems looping in SPSS19
Sent by:        "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>



Hi everyone, I am having problems looping in SPSS 19.
I am trying to identify particular string values in a series of variables
and it is not working:
The following are my commands:

DO REPEAT a = ICD9X_CODE1_somb.1 TO ICD9X_CODE1_somb.3818.
COMPUTE HL_dx = 0.
IF (a = '3890') | (a = '3891') | (a = '3892') | (a = '389') | (a = '3897')
| (a = '3898') | (a = '3899') HL_dx = 1.
END REPEAT.
EXECUTE.

I receive no error messages, however, all values of HL_dx are being
returned as 0 when I know that there are values of '389' '3890'... in the
data.

Any suggestions?

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