Just to be sure... since you're working with a string variable, you did
not forget to put your value 'CA' and 'CO' between cotation marks when
you use them in your syntax?
Philippe
>>> Tanya Temkin <
[hidden email]> 2007-03-16 11:23 >>>
I wish I had more interesting problem to present but this is just
annoying
the #$%! out of me. Sometimes it's the "simple" things that get
you....
I have a nice string variable that I brought in from Excel called
CA_CON,
with two values CA (for case) and CO (for control). Each record in the
file is coded as CA or CO. Whenever I try to do the simplest thing like
set up IF statements or resort to the good old GUI to select cases with
a
value of CA or CO, I get this love poem from SPSS (v14.0, on Windows):
"Incorrect variable name: either the name is more than 64 characters;
or
it is not defined by a previous command."
Yeah, well we can see the variable isn?t 64 characters long, it already
exists, when I go DISPLAY VARIABLES all its attributes are displayed,
there aren?t any blank spaces before or after the variable name; I?ve
renamed the variable in variable viewer to CASE_CNTRL but same
thing.still
happens.
What?s up here? What tree is getting in the way of my seeing the
forest?
Thanks
Tanya
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