Date:         Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:27:58 GMT
Reply-To:     "H. D. Root" <hdr@MONUMENTAL.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "H. D. Root" <hdr@MONUMENTAL.COM>
Organization: Verio East
Subject:      Re: Merging data in columns into one column?

In article <36B6A4C6.7B3315A2@qni.com>, "Frank H. Jurden" <fhj@qni.com> wrote:
>try the "concat" command (in the compute section fo the syntax manual)- this
>works with string variables, allowing you to concatenate substrings into macro
>strings.  i suspect that you'd have to recode you numeric variables into
>alpha.
 
 
Tranform->Compute new variable as A6. Set it equal to
concat(string(var00001,f6.0),var00002,var00003)
where var00001 is your numeric var and var00002 and 00003 are your A1 vars.
 
 
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H. D. Root
Fairfax, Virginia, USA