String value truncation

[Alexa]

Hi,

In a script, I would like SPSS to look for a range of string values,
specifically the value could be '09.4^^^', but not all 3 spaces have to be
used. I.e., the value could be '09.4' or '09.41' or '09.41A' or '09.41AA'.
Is there a symbol I can use to specify this?

Thanks!

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[Rick Oliver-3]

If you're just looking to see if the string exists:

compute stringexists=index(stringvar, '0.94')>0.

The value of the new variable will be 1 for all cases in which the the string variable contains '0.94', and 0 for all other cases.




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Date:        09/23/2011 11:40 AM
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Hi,

In a script, I would like SPSS to look for a range of string values,
specifically the value could be '09.4^^^', but not all 3 spaces have to be
used. I.e., the value could be '09.4' or '09.41' or '09.41A' or '09.41AA'.
Is there a symbol I can use to specify this?

Thanks!

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[David Marso]

Alexa,
  How about '109.4' ?
I presume you would wish to exclude that.  
In such case Rick's simple use of INDEX (posted above) will fail to reject.
You probably want to use SUBSTR function
COMPUTE Found=SUBSTR(yourstringvar,1,4) EQ '09.4'.
(the newfangled version would be CHAR.SUBSTR(...).
Anticipating that there might be more than one of these and perhaps you wish differing lengths consider
DO REPEAT needle="09.4" "100.5" ".9" /SLEN= 4 5 2 / result = @A @B @C.
+  COMPUTE result= SUBSTR(yourstringvar,1,SLEN) EQ needle.
END REPEAT.
HTH, David

Alexa wrote

Hi,

In a script, I would like SPSS to look for a range of string values,
specifically the value could be '09.4^^^', but not all 3 spaces have to be
used. I.e., the value could be '09.4' or '09.41' or '09.41A' or '09.41AA'.
Is there a symbol I can use to specify this?

Thanks!

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