Re: Strange behavior of VARIABLE LABELS in macro

Posted by Rick Oliver-3 on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Revision-control-for-SPSS-source-code-tp4267835p4267998.html

I'm not a macro expert, but the first thing I'd do is SET MPRINT ON before calling the macro to see what the generated syntax is.



From:        ANDRES ALBERTO BURGA LEON <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email]
Date:        03/28/2011 12:12 PM
Subject:        Strange behavior of VARIABLE LABELS in macro
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Hello to everybody:

When I run this simple macro:

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DEFINE !separar_ie (evaluacion = !CHAREND('/') / codigo =!CHAREND('/')).

DATASET COPY  !evaluacion.
DATASET ACTIVATE  !evaluacion.
FILTER OFF.
USE ALL.
SELECT IF (cod_eva = !codigo).
EXECUTE.

SORT CASES BY prioridad (A) codgeo (A) corre_med (A) cod_al (A).
DELETE VARIABLES casos_ie_C_10 casos_ie_M_10 cen_pob region26 TO nombres.

COMPUTE correlativo=$CASENUM.
EXECUTE.
ALTER TYPE correlativo (F6.0).

VARIABLE LABELS
cod_eva V001
correlativo V002
prioridad V003
codgeo        V004
corre_med V005
cod_mod7 V006
anexo V007
nom_nino V008
ie V009
ubicacion V010
en_cl V011
texto1_C V012
en_m V013
texto1_M V014
se_ubica_C V015
nivel_C        V016
texto2_C V017
se_ubica_M V018
nivel_M        V019
texto2_M V020
p_g3_ie_C_10 V021
p_g2_ie_C_10 V022
p_g1_ie_C_10 V023
p_g3_ie_M_10 V024
p_g2_ie_M_10 V025
p_g1_ie_M_10 V026.

SORT VARIABLES BY LABEL.

SAVE OUTFILE=!QUOTE(!CONCAT('D:\Censo Alumnos 2010\Documentos\Reportes\Segundo\Padres\Reporte Padres 2do ',!evaluacion,'.sav'))
/COMPRESSED.

DATASET ACTIVATE  Reporte_padres.

!ENDDEFINE.

!separar_ie evaluacion = MC / codigo = 2.

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I get an error message:

Warning # 4463 in column 25.  Text: V001 correlativo V002 prioridad V003 codgeo V004 corre_med V005
A label specified on the VAR LABELS command contains more than 256 characters.
The label will be truncated to 256 characters.

 
If I run the VARIABLE LABELS outside the macro, I don't get the error, and every variable gets its correct label.

I can run the VARIABLE LABELS like this:

VARIABLE LABELS
cod_eva 'V001'
correlativo 'V002'
prioridad 'V003'
codgeo        'V004'.

inside the macro and works fine. I'm triying to understand why something like:

VARIABLE LABELS
cod_eva V001
correlativo V002
prioridad V003
codgeo        V004.

doesn't works inside the macro,

Kindly

Andrés

Mg. Andrés Burga León
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