seeking help deleting characters form a string variable - reply to John Lemon

[thara vardhan-2]

Hi John

Thank you so much for responding to my plea for help with the correct syntax.

When I tried to run it as suggested by you

STRING REGION (A20)
COMPUTE REGION = SUBSTR (polregx, 7, 20 ).

I get an error message as:
 
>Error # 4080 in column 16.  Text: =
>On the STRING command, the list of variables being defined was not followed by
>the formats for those variables.
>This command not executed.
exe.

Is this because polregx is a string variable?

looking forward to your reply.

many thanks

Thara Vardhan
Senior Statistician
Performance Improvement & Planning

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[Melissa Ives]

put a period after STRING REGION (A20)

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Subject: [SPSSX-L] seeking help deleting characters form a string variable - reply to John Lemon

Hi John

Thank you so much for responding to my plea for help with the correct syntax.

When I tried to run it as suggested by you

STRING REGION (A20)
COMPUTE REGION = SUBSTR (polregx, 7, 20 ).

I get an error message as:
 
>Error # 4080 in column 16.  Text: =
>On the STRING command, the list of variables being defined was not followed by
>the formats for those variables.
>This command not executed.
exe.

Is this because polregx is a string variable?

looking forward to your reply.

many thanks

Thara Vardhan
Senior Statistician
Performance Improvement & Planning

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[Nirit Avnimelech]

Hi Thara,

 

I think the problem is that you forgot to put a period (.) at the end of the STRING command, so the following command is treated as additional new string variables you're defining…

 

Nirit

 

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נושא: seeking help deleting characters form a string variable - reply to John Lemon

 

Hi John

Thank you so much for responding to my plea for help with the correct syntax.

When I tried to run it as suggested by you

STRING REGION (A20)
COMPUTE REGION = SUBSTR (polregx, 7, 20 ).

I get an error message as:
 
>Error # 4080 in column 16.  Text: =
>On the STRING command, the list of variables being defined was not followed by
>the formats for those variables.
>This command not executed.
exe.

Is this because polregx is a string variable?

looking forward to your reply.

many thanks

Thara Vardhan
Senior Statistician
Performance Improvement & Planning

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