Simplifing Via Syntax

[Juan Pablo Sandoval]

Hi:

I'm runing a long line of commnads to check a frequencies for like so:

Freq v001, and then a Mult Response for v002 and v003

then...

Freq v004, and Mult Response form v005 and v006...

Is there a way to simplify this via a macro so instead to have a long lines
of sintax doing it via a macro???

Regards,

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[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi Juan,

This is not so easy with macro language since one
cannot perform arithmatic with the macro facility.
There is one --very ugly-- macro solution which
involves counting !blanks, but I'll ignore that
because Python offers a much more elegant, and simpler
solution:

set mprint = on.
begin program.
import spss
for i in range (1, 100, 3):
        spss.Submit(r"""fre v%03d.
                        means v%03d.
                        means v%03d.
                        """ %(i, i + 1, i + 2))
end program.

This allows variables v001-v100 to be processed. The
code %03d refers to the index value that is
left-padded with zeros. I used 'means'  because I
don't know the syntax for multiple response, but of
course you can easily replace that.

Cheers!! (and have a nice weekend!)
Albert-Jan



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