Text to SPSS and Back?

[Secrist, Kevin]

Dear SPSS list members,

I was wondering if there was a process to bring a text file into spss, run a match file to extract a line if a variable matches another file variable, and then send it back out as a text file?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin Secrist, Administrative Analyst, Associate
ASD
Butte County Behavioral Health
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[Dennis Deck]

One approach, assuming the input string is Str and search string is
Srch:

TEMPORARY .
SELECT IF (INDEX(Str,Srch)>0).
WRITE Outfile= 'filename.txt' /1 Str .

This writes to a text file if the search condition is met.

Dennis Deck, PhD
RMC Research Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: Secrist, Kevin [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: Text to SPSS and Back?

Dear SPSS list members,

I was wondering if there was a process to bring a text file into spss,
run a match file to extract a line if a variable matches another file
variable, and then send it back out as a text file?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin Secrist, Administrative Analyst, Associate
ASD
Butte County Behavioral Health
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often
vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be
made precise.
Ann. Math. Stat. 33 (1962) - John w. Tukey