If you don't want to save the file, yuo can drop variables with ADD FILES:
add files file=* /drop var1 to var10.
I think DELETE VARIABLES was added in release 12.
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:02 AM
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Subject: Re: Delete variable
Eric,
Look into the SAVE OUTFILE command. Something like this works:
SAVE OUTFILE 'c:\eric\myfile.sav' /DROP = VAR1 TO VAR10 VARX VARY VARZ .
In the above example, the command saves the file to
c:\eric\myfile.sav and that file will only contain those variables
that you did not specify in the drop subcommand.
Best regards,
Florio
At 05:40 AM 9/5/2007, Eric Janssen wrote:
>Dear list
>
>How may I delete variables in a base using a syntax when using and old SPSS
>version? For instance, syntaxes like:
>
>delete variable VAR1 .
>del var VAR to VARx .
>
>are not working on SPSS 11 and previous version.
>Any idea appreciated.
>Eric
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