Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:09:25 -0500
Reply-To: Rich Ulrich <rich-ulrich@live.com>
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From: Rich Ulrich <rich-ulrich@live.com>
Subject: Re: macro to replace portions of variable names in syntax file
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Read a template, substitute for some text, write the result somewhere
and then run it. That's the way that I read the original post.
My old-style solution still looks pretty easy, compared to what I've
read, which mostly tackle other problems.
The text substitution can be more complicated than I wrote -- when the new
and old are not exactly the same length, you have to copy the old line into
a new line before writing it, to accommodate a longer or shorter text.
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Rich Ulrich
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:31:23 -0800
> From: MPirritano@ochca.com
> Subject: Re: macro to replace portions of variable names in syntax file
> To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
> David et al.,
>
> Apologies if my original post wasn't clear. I think Jon and Albert-Jan
> were on the right track. I have yet to try Albert-Jan's solution.
>
> What I want is simply a constant.
>
> Like in python I could just say:
>
> X = "Hello"
>
> And then plug that in wherever else I want in the syntax. To be able to
> use a constant that is not expressly a string, like Sep_Oct_2011 (no
> quotes), as part of a variable name. So that I could just say X =
> Sep_Oct_2011 and then plug X in wherever I wanted to do the replacement.
> That is what I was using the macro syntax to define my file dates as. I
> don't need to parse the date string to equal anything. 20111219 doesn't
> have to equal Nov_Dec_2011. In fact it was silly of me to call my
> variable MMM_MMM_YYYY. I changed it from Sep_Oct_2011 to 090111_103111,
> for my sep to oct file name. I prefer YYYYMMDD, but the person who is
> sending me files uses MMDDYY.
>
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