Date:         Fri, 2 Dec 2011 11:23:19 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marso <david.marso@gmail.com>
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From:         David Marso <david.marso@gmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Error : The first word in the line is not recognized as an
              SPSS Statistics command.
In-Reply-To:  <1322846965631-5042683.post@n5.nabble.com>
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You are making it *WAY TOO COMPLICATED*!!!
SPSS Macro knows *NOTHING* of "arrays" much or less anything of array
indexes.
MACRO is simply a string parser with minimal functionality beyond !HEAD,
!TAIL, !CONCAT, !SUBSTR.
It flunked *MATH* in grade school and was invented when wheels were square
and computers only had ones (zero had yet to be discovered).   However in
the right hands can build a primitive rocket ship from bear skins and flint
shards.
You *CAN NOT* extend MACRO with constructs such as:  !ddim = len(!dlist)
numeric or !ilist(!j).
It is also quite innocent of *most* things common to most "languages".
The following achieves what I infer you to be attempting.

DEFINE !myvars( DLIST !ENCLOSE("[","]")
              / ILIST !ENCLOSE("[","]") ).
!DO !ddim !IN (!DLIST) !DO !idim !IN (!ILIST)
COMPUTE !CONCAT('var',!ddim , 'sub', !idim) =0.
!DOEND  !DOEND
!ENDDEFINE.
SET MPRINT ON.
!myvars dlist = [1 2 3 4 5] ilist = [1 2 4 8 9] .
EXECUTE.
!myvars dlist = [1 2 3 4 5] ilist = [1 2 4 8 9] .

COMPUTE var1sub1 =0.
COMPUTE var1sub2 =0.
COMPUTE var1sub4 =0.
COMPUTE var1sub8 =0.
COMPUTE var1sub9 =0.
COMPUTE var2sub1 =0.
....

COMPUTE var5sub1 =0.
COMPUTE var5sub2 =0.
COMPUTE var5sub4 =0.
COMPUTE var5sub8 =0.
COMPUTE var5sub9 =0.



anitha.un wrote
>
> Welll...thank you sooo much. I appreciate your help on this.  And also i
> was trying to do the same using arrays, below is the syntax . My output
> should create variables like var1sub1, var1sub2. var1sub4, var1sub8
> var1sub9, var2sub1, var2sub2,var2sub4, var2sub8, var2sub9.
>
> Define !myvars().
> !dlist = [1 2 3 4 5].
> !ilist = [1 2 4 8 9].
> !ddim = len(!dlist) numeric.
> !idim = len(!ilist) numeric.
>      !do !i = 1 !to !ddim.
>           !LET !mydvar = !CONCAT('var',!dlist(!i)).
>      !do !j = 1 !to !idim.
>           !LET !myivar = !CONCAT('sub',!ilist(!j)).
>       !myfvar= !CONCAT(!mydvar,!myivar).
> COMPUTE !myfvar=0.
> !DOEND.
> !DOEND.
> !ENDDEFINE.
> myvars.
> EXECUTE.
>
> Can you help me out to trouble shoot the error i got : The first word in
> the line is not recognized as an SPSS Statistics command.This command not
> executed. I am still a beginner in spss macros, so i feel there may be a
> small mistake.
>


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