OMS

[behnaz shirazi-2]

Hello Dear All:

After installing spss 16 , I have problem with OMS .When I use oms I won't be able to see any table or chart on my output while when I disable it I can see my objects.If I want to disable OMS
I get lot of "case processing" table which I don't need them.

Any suggestions are welcomed!

Thank you
Behnaz
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[Yifan Lu-2]

Hi list,

I want to block a big trunk of comments, how do I do that in SPSS
syntax? E.g., something similar in SAS is either /* ...  */ or %macro
junk; ...%mend junk;

Thanks in advance!

Yifan

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[Norton, John]

Comments in SPSS command language are defined by a star ("*") before the comment. Comments are terminated like all other commands, with a command terminator (or period: ".")  The trick with large blocks of narrative comments is that sentences are ended with periods, and those get recognized in SPSS as command terminators.

When I annotate a command file with large blocks of comments, I usually start each line with a star and then indent. This serves two purposes: 1) it visually sets off the comment as suchan and 2) it garuntees that SPSS recognizes the whole block as a comment.

Whenever using comments, be sure you terminate the command (as a comment is actually a command which tells the system to ignore all which follows) with a period. Otherwise the command which follows - the one you want executed - will be treated as part of the comment.

HTH,

John Norton

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Sent: Wed Mar 05 19:15:46 2008
Subject:      How to make comments in SPSS

Hi list,

I want to block a big trunk of comments, how do I do that in SPSS
syntax? E.g., something similar in SAS is either /* ...  */ or %macro
junk; ...%mend junk;

Thanks in advance!

Yifan

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[Richard Ristow]

At 07:15 PM 3/5/2008, Yifan Lu wrote:

>I want to block a big trunk of comments, how do I do that in SPSS
>syntax? E.g., something similar in SAS is either /* ...  */ or
>%macro junk; ...%mend junk;

There are two forms of comment:
. Lines beginning with an asterisk and ending with a period (these
are actually no-op commands), like

*  Count records by premise ("premise_ID");  .

. Text on any line beginning '/*', and ending with '*/' or the end of
the physical line; like

AGGREGATE
    /OUTFILE = * MODE = ADDVARIABLES
    /BREAK   = premise_ID
    /n_current_tenant      /* Number of records FOR CURRENT TENANT   */
             = SUM(current_tenant)

(Be careful: macros inside the first kind of comment are expanded.)

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[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi John,

But I was wondering, is there also a way to have
docstrings in spss, similar to Python? So triple quote
- comment - triple quote? It's kinda annoying
sometimes to put asterisks before each and every line.
And it's also useful if you want to 'turn off' a chunk
of syntax.

Cheers!!
Albert-Jan


--- "Norton, John" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Comments in SPSS command language are defined by a
> star ("*") before the comment. Comments are
> terminated like all other commands, with a command
> terminator (or period: ".")  The trick with large
> blocks of narrative comments is that sentences are
> ended with periods, and those get recognized in SPSS
> as command terminators.
>
> When I annotate a command file with large blocks of
> comments, I usually start each line with a star and
> then indent. This serves two purposes: 1) it
> visually sets off the comment as suchan and 2) it
> garuntees that SPSS recognizes the whole block as a
> comment.
>
> Whenever using comments, be sure you terminate the
> command (as a comment is actually a command which
> tells the system to ignore all which follows) with a
> period. Otherwise the command which follows - the
> one you want executed - will be treated as part of
> the comment.
>
> HTH,
>
> John Norton
>
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> <[hidden email]>
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> Subject:      How to make comments in SPSS
>
> Hi list,
>
> I want to block a big trunk of comments, how do I do
> that in SPSS
> syntax? E.g., something similar in SAS is either /*
> ...  */ or %macro
> junk; ...%mend junk;
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Yifan
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[Richard Ristow]

At 03:19 AM 3/6/2008, Albert-jan Roskam wrote:

>But I was wondering, is there also a way to have docstrings in spss,
>similar to Python? So triple quote - comment - triple quote? It's
>kinda annoying
>sometimes to put asterisks before each and every line.

ECHO 'Demo of long comments'.
Demo of long comments


*  It is possible to have multi-line comments in SPSS, since '*' is  +
    a command with the same syntax rules as any other. You have to    +
    be careful that none of the comment lines ends with '.', as that  +
    terminates the command. (I'm putting plus signs, '+'comma at the  +
    end of every line to avert that possibility.)                     +
                                                                      +
    And you can't have blank lines within the comment, as that also   +
    terminates the command. But the closing single '+', alone, is     +
    effectively a blank.                                              +
                                                                      +
    I don't fancy multi-line comments in SPSS or any other language.  +
    It's too easy to leave a comment unclosed, and have it 'eat'      +
    some of the code. Or not to see what you've commented out and     +
    what you havent.                                                  .

*  For that reason, I write block comments as multiple single-line   .
*  comments. Then they're set off obviously from the rest of the     .
*  text. And unclosed comments are easier to spot.                   .

ECHO 'End of demo'.
End of demo


>And it's also useful if you want to 'turn off' a chunk of syntax.

As you will, but that's a particularly dangerous use of multi-line
comments. It's remarkably easy to miss what code you've commented
out, and what you haven't.

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[Marks, Jim]

FWIW I use *** or ** to mark my comments (each line).

That way I can search for comments, and not get stopped by "file = *"

--jim

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At 03:19 AM 3/6/2008, Albert-jan Roskam wrote:

>But I was wondering, is there also a way to have docstrings in spss,
>similar to Python? So triple quote - comment - triple quote? It's kinda

>annoying sometimes to put asterisks before each and every line.

ECHO 'Demo of long comments'.
Demo of long comments


*  It is possible to have multi-line comments in SPSS, since '*' is  +
    a command with the same syntax rules as any other. You have to    +
    be careful that none of the comment lines ends with '.', as that  +
    terminates the command. (I'm putting plus signs, '+'comma at the  +
    end of every line to avert that possibility.)                     +
                                                                      +
    And you can't have blank lines within the comment, as that also   +
    terminates the command. But the closing single '+', alone, is     +
    effectively a blank.                                              +
                                                                      +
    I don't fancy multi-line comments in SPSS or any other language.  +
    It's too easy to leave a comment unclosed, and have it 'eat'      +
    some of the code. Or not to see what you've commented out and     +
    what you havent.                                                  .

*  For that reason, I write block comments as multiple single-line   .
*  comments. Then they're set off obviously from the rest of the     .
*  text. And unclosed comments are easier to spot.                   .

ECHO 'End of demo'.
End of demo


>And it's also useful if you want to 'turn off' a chunk of syntax.

As you will, but that's a particularly dangerous use of multi-line
comments. It's remarkably easy to miss what code you've commented out,
and what you haven't.

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