adding a value label item with synthax, if codes are already defined

[progster]

Hi I received a spss file, already coded with value labels.

I need to add some new value labels that had been forgotten, using the syntax.

for istance:

val lab VAR1
8 "New Item".

but this code deletes the previous labels 1 to 7.

How can I add the 8 code without repeating the 1 to 7 labels?

[Bruce Weaver]

VALUE LABELS obliterates previously existing labels; ADD VALUE LABELS does not.

progster wrote

Hi I received a spss file, already coded with value labels.

I need to add some new value labels that had been forgotten, using the syntax.

for istance:

val lab VAR1
8 "New Item".

but this code deletes the previous labels 1 to 7.

How can I add the 8 code without repeating the 1 to 7 labels?

[progster]

thanks, and to see the codes already defined by synthax? a "print" or a similar concept?

[David Marso]

See DISPLAY DICTIONARY.
eg

DISPLAY DICTIONARY/VARIABLES <varlist>

progster wrote

thanks, and to see the codes already defined by synthax? a "print" or a similar concept?

[Jon K Peck]

Or, better in many cases, use the CODEBOOK command as it shows not only the labels but statistics for the data so you can quickly see any values that do not have labels.


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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See DISPLAY DICTIONARY.
eg

DISPLAY DICTIONARY/VARIABLES <varlist>


progster wrote
> thanks, and to see the codes already defined by synthax? a "print" or a
> similar concept?





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