| Date: | Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:25:21 +0200 |
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| Reply-To: | ISPO <ispo@IT.NET> |
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| Sender: | "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | ISPO <ispo@IT.NET> |
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| Subject: | String or Numeric? |
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| Content-Type: | text/plain; charset="us-ascii" |
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Dear SPSSer's,
I have this problem.
I am ADDING CASES, joining some SIMILAR files, in a dataset; where I have
an alphanumeric variable.
In some of these file there are no values in this variable, so SPSS read
the alphanumeric variable as a numeric one with all cases missing.
No problem, I can re-compute the variable as a STRING.
But if I already have an alphanumeric variable I got an ERROR.
I want the sintax to read te variable and DETERMINE if it is alphanumeric
or numeric, so I can do a DO IF structure.
Thanks a lot, Arnaldo Ferrari Nasi.
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