Monitoring SPSS progress in real time

[John F Hall]

I’m using Ctrl+H to find and replace the text “ 8 ‘DK’” with “” (nothing) in a syntax file with 29,000 lines.  It worked on a previous file with 100, 000 liones in about 25 minutes.  This one has been stuck for over an hour.  How can I find out what it is doing (if anything) and how far it has got?

 

John F Hall (Mr)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

(SPSS 24: Windows 7 Pro 32-bit)

Email:   [hidden email] 

Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

SPSS start page:  www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop

 

 

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[David Marso]

A simple Find/Replace of this sort should take mere seconds.  
Perhaps do this in Notepad or something else?
I suspect maybe syntax highlighting or some such beast is getting in the way?
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John F Hall wrote

I'm using Ctrl+H to find and replace the text " 8 'DK'" with "" (nothing) in
a syntax file with 29,000 lines.  It worked on a previous file with 100, 000
liones in about 25 minutes.  This one has been stuck for over an hour.  How
can I find out what it is doing (if anything) and how far it has got?
 
John F Hall (Mr)
[Retired academic survey researcher]
(SPSS 24: Windows 7 Pro 32-bit)
Email:    <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] 
Website:  <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/>
www.surveyresearch.weebly.com
SPSS start page:
<http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop.html>
www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop
 
 

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[Albert-Jan Roskam-3]

from os.path import splitext
syntax = r"c:\some\syntax.sps"
with open(syntax, "rb") as infile, open(splitext(syntax)[0] + _subst.sps", "wb") as outfile:
    for line in infile:
        line = line.replace(“ 8 ‘DK’", "')
    outfile.write(line)

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 10:37:40 +0200
From: [hidden email]
Subject: [SPSSX-L] Monitoring SPSS progress in real time
To: [hidden email]

I’m using Ctrl+H to find and replace the text “ 8 ‘DK’” with “” (nothing) in a syntax file with 29,000 lines.  It worked on a previous file with 100, 000 liones in about 25 minutes.  This one has been stuck for over an hour.  How can I find out what it is doing (if anything) and how far it has got?

 

John F Hall (Mr)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

(SPSS 24: Windows 7 Pro 32-bit)

Email:   johnfhall@... 

Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

SPSS start page:  www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop

 

 

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