At 11:13 AM 10/18/2007, el13porciento wrote:
>Is it possible to manage string matrices or vectors, with more than 8
>characters, within a matrix...end matrix?
I'm afraid not. From the SPSS 14 Command Syntax Reference, article on
MATRIX:
Matrix variables can contain short [i.e., 8 character or less] string
data. Support for string variables is limited, however.
* MATRIX will attempt to carry out calculations with string variables
if you so request. The results will not be meaningful.
* You must specify a format (such as A8) when you display a matrix that
contains string data.
And you'll see there are no string-manipulation functions in MATRIX.
Strings are useful mainly for labeling output; they can be very handy
for that.
All that said, what do you want to do? Whatever you want to do with
your strings, there's probably another way to do it.
-Good luck,
Richard Ristow
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