advanced search failing for common SPSS words!

[Art Kendall]

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[Jon Peck]

V27 has an improved  search function, but it mostly finds just menu text.

You can do the removal with this code using SPSSINC TRANS, which you probably already have but can get from Extensions >  Extension Hub.

data list list/s(a10).
begin data
abcd
ABCD123
Z!!!
end data.
dataset name data.
list.

spssinc trans result=noalpha
/formula "re.sub('[a-zA-Z]', '', s)".

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 12:35 PM Art Kendall <[hidden email]> wrote:

If I go to <advanced search> and search for "any of the words" "anywhere it
the message"

any alpha  missing value replace

I get no hits!

I seem to recall that at some time somebody posted a way to remove all A to
Z and all a to z  characters from a string.



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[Art Kendall]

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

My problem was with Nabble.   After an hour or so the problem stopped
happening.





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