Again Re: Compute syntax

[Bob Schacht-3]

I'm sending this message a second time to acknowledge ViAnn's help. My
first attempt was rejected because it was deemed "identical" to a previous
message. So I was advised to "please  alter the text of  the message in
some way and resend  it to the list. ...you should  ... add  a  sentence
or  two  at  the top  explaining  why you  are
resending the  message, so that the  other subscribers understand why  they are
getting two copies of the same message." I'm attempting to comply with this
directive.


At 05:17 PM 11/6/2007, ViAnn Beadle wrote:
>Is CLOEMPST a string variable?

Bingo. No, this time I had it set up as numeric.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Bob
>Schacht
>Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:49 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Compute syntax
>
>While trying to construct a filter variable, I ran this syntax:
>
>COMPUTE GOODJOBS = any(CLOEMPST, '1','3','4','7') AND HrlyWage>=7.25 AND
>STAT =
>     '26'.
>
>and get this error:
>  >Error # 4325 in column 49.  Text: )
>  >The arguments to the ANY and RANGE functions must be either all strings
>(or
>  >string expressions) or all numeric variables (or numeric expressions).
>  >This command not executed.
>
>I intended this as a logical statement, i.e., GoodJobs = 1 if the three
>conditions are true, and 0 otherwise.
>The ANY function can be used with COMPUTE, but here it seems that the
>syntax editor is trying to extend the ANY function beyond the closing
>parenthesis.
>
>How can I fix this? What am I doing wrong?
>
>I am using SPSS ver. 12
>
>Bob
>
>Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]>
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>Research Center, University of Hawaii
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[Richard Ristow]

At 04:31 PM 11/7/2007, Bob Schacht wrote:

>I'm sending this message a second time to acknowledge ViAnn's help.
>My first attempt was rejected because it was deemed "identical" to a
>previous message. I was advised to "please  alter the text of  the
>message ..."I'm attempting to comply with this directive.

Actually, your first attempt wasn't rejected; it went out just fine.

Those "rejected duplicate posting" messages happen from time to time,
referring to a posting you made that was distributed correctly.

They appear to result from certain kinds of mail bounce, that send
the bounce message, with the original message text, back to the
*list*, but appearing to come from you. It's a good thing the
LISTSERV software does recognize and reject them; otherwise, at best
your posting would be duplicated, and at worst there'd be a cascade
of new bounce messages posted to the list.

Make sure your original posting was distributed; that will almost
always be the case. (Yours was, Bob.) If it was, ignore and discard
the 'duplicate' message.

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