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Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

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Ruben Geert van den Berg

Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

Dear all,

Is there a way to turn a character into its decimal ASCII code point in SPSS? (For now I'll presume there will be no non ASCII characters present.) I found

formats [...] (ahex).

displays the code point in hexadecimal notation but that's just not the same...

TIA!

MaxJasper

Re: Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

Just switch SPSS view to Variables and click switch Ascii to numberical J

Is there a way to turn a character into its decimal ASCII code point in SPSS? (For now I'll presume there will be no non ASCII characters present.) I found

formats [...] (ahex).

displays the code point in hexadecimal notation but that's just not the same...

TIA!

David Marso

Re: Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

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Maybe you are referring to PIB format?
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Ruben Geert van den Berg wrote

Dear all,

Is there a way to turn a character into its decimal ASCII code point in SPSS? (For now I'll presume there will be no non ASCII characters present.) I found

formats [...] (ahex).

displays the code point in hexadecimal notation but that's just not the same...

TIA!

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David Marso

Re: Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

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DATA LIST /lower01 TO lower26 upper01 TO upper26 num0 TO num9 (62A1).
BEGIN DATA
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
END DATA.
VARSTOCASES /MAKE char FROM lower01 TO num9 /INDEX=alpha(char).
COMPUTE code=NUMBER(char,PIB).
FORMATS code (PIB).
EXECUTE.

Ruben Geert van den Berg

Re: Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

Yes, that's exactly it. I knew it worked the other way around as in

string char(a1).
compute char = string(code,pib).

but - until a minute ago - I didn't know how to reverse that.

Thanks man!

David Marso

Re: Find decimal ASCII code point for character in SPSS

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In reply to this post by MaxJasper

Where exactly is this "switch Ascii to numerical (sic)"

MaxJasper wrote

Just switch SPSS view to Variables and click switch Ascii to numberical :)

Is there a way to turn a character into its decimal ASCII code point in SPSS? (For now I'll presume there will be no non ASCII characters present.) I found

formats [...] (ahex).

displays the code point in hexadecimal notation but that's just not the same...

TIA!