Please provide a very specific example of what the response pattern appears as in SPSS and what is required as output (are your source data numeric or strings, how wide etc...).  My thoughts are to conditionally concatenate the MR fields to a single string and output the result.
Alternatively use the "power of 10" -or 100 as the case may be *YMMV after 10^16*.
OTOH:  I must decline much further comment without the down and dirty re your data.
COMPUTE result=0.
DO REPEAT v=v1 TO v10.
IF NOT MISSING (v) result=result*10+v.
END REPEAT.
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GauravSrivastava wrote

Hi David,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Let me brief you about floating data, may be
it's not a right word which create confusion.
suppose I have a multi-response question with 1 to 10 categories and a
respondent answer 1,2,4,6,8th categories. with my below code I can capture
the data in ASCII at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th column position for this
respondent.
Now I want to capture it straight at 1-5 column position without any blank
(3rd and 5th in above case) which I am saying floating data.

Hope this make it more clear. Please revert me ASAP.

Regards,
Gaurav

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:22 PM, David Marso [via SPSSX Discussion] <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Perhaps you would be so kind and enlighten us to what you mean by a
> "floating data file"?
> I have never heard that particular expression before in 30 years of doing
> data analysis ;-).
> I am not even going to attempt to apply my incomparable ESPss intuitions
> to second guess.
> Note FWIW: SPSS respects the ancient FORTRAN record specifications in case
> it helps.
> What the following shall convey is that you can (and should) instruct SPSS
> to place *ANY* variable into *ANY* location you desire in the output file
> (Fd.w,A,N,X etc).
> DATA LIST FREE / A B C D (4F).
> BEGIN DATA
> 1 2 3 4
> end data
> STRING ALPHA (A8).
> COMPUTE alpha="abcdefgh".
> WRITE OUTFILE "C:\test1.txt"  /A B C D (4(F8.3,1X/)).
>    1.000
>    2.000
>    3.000
>    4.000
>
> WRITE OUTFILE "C:\test2.txt"  /A alpha B alpha C alpha D alpha
> (4(F8.3,1X,A8/)).
> EXE.
>
>    1.000 abcdefgh
>    2.000 abcdefgh
>    3.000 abcdefgh
>    4.000 abcdefgh
>
> WRITE OUTFILE "C:\test3.txt"  /A alpha B alpha C alpha D alpha
> (2(F8.3,1X,A8/N4,1X,A8/)).
> EXE.
>    1.000 abcdefgh
> 0002 abcdefgh
>    3.000 abcdefgh
> 0004 abcdefgh
>
> GauravSrivastava wrote
> Hi ALL,
>
> I am trying to convert the SPSS data into ASCII card data. I am using
> below code to convert it:
>
> GET FILE ='C:\Users\Gaurav S\Documents\Projects\Data Check\5687 - J&J Mega
> Tracker\Adult\HONGKONG\Data\p752065020_gsrivastava_20562058.sav'.
> WRITE OUTFILE = 'C:\Users\Gaurav S\Documents\Projects\Data Check\5687 -
> J&J Mega Tracker\Adult\HONGKONG\Data\DataCrd.dat'
>  RECORDS=10
>  /1 RespID 1-6 (N) '01' 7-8 R1 9 R2 10-11 (N) Respondent_ID 12-62 (A)
>  /2 RespID 1-6 (N) '02' 7-8 Q1 9 Q21 10 Q22 11 Q23 12 Q24 13
>  /3 RespID 1-6 (N) '03' 7-8 Data2 9-13 (comma,2)
>  /4 RespID 1-6 (N) '04' 7-8 R1_01 11-12(N) R1_02 13-14(N) R1_03 15-16(N)
> R1_04 17-18(N) R1_05 19-20(N)R1_06 21-22(N)R1_07 23-24(N)R1_08
> 25-26(N)R1_09 27-28(N)R1_10 29-30(N)R1_99 31-32(N).
>  Execute.
>
> It's working fine but it giving me a fixed width card ASCII data. I need
> the floating data file.
>
> Please help. I need it urgently.
>
> Regards,
> Gaurav
>
>
>
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