TITLES WIDER THAN 60 CHAR.

[Erwan LE DÛ]

Hi all,
I have a problem regarding titles exceeding 60 char. To handle this I
am using this macro :

DEFINE !freq (!POSITIONAL !ENCLOSE ('(',')') / !POSITIONAL !ENCLOSE ('[',']') )
!IF (!LENGTH(!2)<=60) !THEN
TITLE !2.
!ELSE
TITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).
SUBTITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR(!2,61)).
!IFEND
FREQUENCIES
VARIABLES=!1
/ORDER= ANALYSIS .
!ENDDEFINE.

However when I run the macro for a title that exceeds 60 characters, I
get one page title with 60 char and another one with title (60 char)
and a subtitle with the remaining characters.

Q1.Why do I get both (title alone and title + subtitle) since the
macro evaluates the string length with a conditional if?

Q2. Is there a way to put titles wider than 60 char. on a single line
in the output document rather than doing it by hand?

Many thanks in advance,

Erwan
Statistician / Data Manager











!IF (!LENGTH(!2)<=60) !THEN

TITLE !2.

!ELSE

TITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).

SUBTITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR(!2,61)).

!IFEND

FREQUENCIES

VARIABLES=!1

/ORDER= ANALYSIS .

!ENDDEFINE.

However when I run the macro for a title that exceeds 60 characters, I
get one page title with 60 char and another one with title (60 char)
and a subtitle with the remaining characters.

Why do I get both (title alone and title + subtitle) since the macro
evaluates the string length with a conditional if? Has anyone had
problems with titles wider than 60 to put in reports?

Thanks,

Erwan

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi Erwan,

Why are you not QUOTEing the second positional
argument (!2)?

The syntaxis is :
TITLE "This is a title".

So why not use:
TITLE !QUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).

Oh, and I would call the macro '!myfreq' (or something
like that) to avoid confusion with the FREQ command.

Cheers!!
Albert-Jan

--- Erwan LE D� <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a problem regarding titles exceeding 60 char.
> To handle this I
> am using this macro :
>
> DEFINE !freq (!POSITIONAL !ENCLOSE ('(',')') /
> !POSITIONAL !ENCLOSE ('[',']') )
> !IF (!LENGTH(!2)<=60) !THEN
> TITLE !2.
> !ELSE
> TITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).
> SUBTITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR(!2,61)).
> !IFEND
> FREQUENCIES
> VARIABLES=!1
> /ORDER= ANALYSIS .
> !ENDDEFINE.
>
> However when I run the macro for a title that
> exceeds 60 characters, I
> get one page title with 60 char and another one with
> title (60 char)
> and a subtitle with the remaining characters.
>
> Q1.Why do I get both (title alone and title +
> subtitle) since the
> macro evaluates the string length with a conditional
> if?
>
> Q2. Is there a way to put titles wider than 60 char.
> on a single line
> in the output document rather than doing it by hand?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Erwan
> Statistician / Data Manager
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> !IF (!LENGTH(!2)<=60) !THEN
>
> TITLE !2.
>
> !ELSE
>
> TITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).
>
> SUBTITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR(!2,61)).
>
> !IFEND
>
> FREQUENCIES
>
> VARIABLES=!1
>
> /ORDER= ANALYSIS .
>
> !ENDDEFINE.
>
> However when I run the macro for a title that
> exceeds 60 characters, I
> get one page title with 60 char and another one with
> title (60 char)
> and a subtitle with the remaining characters.
>
> Why do I get both (title alone and title + subtitle)
> since the macro
> evaluates the string length with a conditional if?
> Has anyone had
> problems with titles wider than 60 to put in
> reports?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erwan
>

Cheers!
Albert-Jan

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[Florio Arguillas]

Quotes are optional in the TITLE command.

In the command syntax help for TITLE, the quotes
are inside square brackets-- meaning optional.

TITLE [']text[']

So this one will work as well.

TITLE This is a title.



At 06:51 AM 9/3/2007, Albert-jan Roskam wrote:

>Hi Erwan,
>
>Why are you not QUOTEing the second positional
>argument (!2)?
>
>The syntaxis is :
>TITLE "This is a title".
>
>So why not use:
>TITLE !QUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).
>
>Oh, and I would call the macro '!myfreq' (or something
>like that) to avoid confusion with the FREQ command.
>
>Cheers!!
>Albert-Jan
>
>--- Erwan LE D� <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have a problem regarding titles exceeding 60 char.
> > To handle this I
> > am using this macro :
> >
> > DEFINE !freq (!POSITIONAL !ENCLOSE ('(',')') /
> > !POSITIONAL !ENCLOSE ('[',']') )
> > !IF (!LENGTH(!2)<=60) !THEN
> > TITLE !2.
> > !ELSE
> > TITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).
> > SUBTITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR(!2,61)).
> > !IFEND
> > FREQUENCIES
> > VARIABLES=!1
> > /ORDER= ANALYSIS .
> > !ENDDEFINE.
> >
> > However when I run the macro for a title that
> > exceeds 60 characters, I
> > get one page title with 60 char and another one with
> > title (60 char)
> > and a subtitle with the remaining characters.
> >
> > Q1.Why do I get both (title alone and title +
> > subtitle) since the
> > macro evaluates the string length with a conditional
> > if?
> >
> > Q2. Is there a way to put titles wider than 60 char.
> > on a single line
> > in the output document rather than doing it by hand?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> >
> > Erwan
> > Statistician / Data Manager
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > !IF (!LENGTH(!2)<=60) !THEN
> >
> > TITLE !2.
> >
> > !ELSE
> >
> > TITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR (!2,1,60)).
> >
> > SUBTITLE !UNQUOTE(!SUBSTR(!2,61)).
> >
> > !IFEND
> >
> > FREQUENCIES
> >
> > VARIABLES=!1
> >
> > /ORDER= ANALYSIS .
> >
> > !ENDDEFINE.
> >
> > However when I run the macro for a title that
> > exceeds 60 characters, I
> > get one page title with 60 char and another one with
> > title (60 char)
> > and a subtitle with the remaining characters.
> >
> > Why do I get both (title alone and title + subtitle)
> > since the macro
> > evaluates the string length with a conditional if?
> > Has anyone had
> > problems with titles wider than 60 to put in
> > reports?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Erwan
> >
>
>
>Cheers!
>Albert-Jan
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Did you know that 87.166253% of all statistics
>claim a precision of results that is not
>justified by the method employed? [HELMUT RICHTER]
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>____________________________________________________________________________________
>Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's
>Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when.
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