how to move long variable labels to new custom attribute

[Art Kendall]

A data set has the original questions as the variable labels.
These labels make messy tables.   How would I create a new custom attribute
named "Question"  that has the contents of the "Label" attribute?

Then I would go back and put in new VAR LABELS by syntax.



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[Jon Peck]

Piece of cake.

begin program python3.

import spssaux

    

vardict = spssaux.VariableDict()

for v in vardict:

   spssaux.createAttribute(v.VariableName, "Question", v.VariableLabel)

end program.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:52 PM Art Kendall <[hidden email]> wrote:

A data set has the original questions as the variable labels.
These labels make messy tables.   How would I create a new custom attribute
named "Question"  that has the contents of the "Label" attribute?

Then I would go back and put in new VAR LABELS by syntax.



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[Art Kendall]

Thanks.

Much easier than pasting in a word processing program and writing syntax.



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