George
You can use DO REPEAT for existing vars, but you need to generate the new var names yourself if you want to stick _p on the end of each name. SPSS can't automatically generate new vars ending in alpha characters Other listers will show you how to do this.
do repeat
x = su1a to su40e
/y = <new var lis>
compute y = x.
end repeat.
sort variables by name.
The grunty way would be:
do repeat
x = su1a to su40e
/y = su1a_p su1b_p ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ su40d_p su40e_p.
compute y = x.
end repeat.
*Never used this, but it should work.
sort variables by name.
. . . but the syntax gurus will come up with something more elegant for the new names and also to sort into the order you want.
John F Hall (Mr)
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Subject: Creation of New Groups of variables that correspond to the old groups
I have a long set of variables, titled SU1a, SU1b, SU1c, SU1d, SU1e all the way through SU40a, SU40b etc. I am trying to create new variables with a similar naming scheme, but with "_p" added to the end. Further, I need to put the groupings of variables next to each corresponding group, i.e. SU1a, SU1b, SU1c, SU1d, SU1e, SU1a_p, SU1b_p, SU1c_p, SU1d_p, SU1e_p, SU2a, SU2b...
I could grunt my way through this and create them by hand, or write the syntax for every variable, but it seems like I should be able to create a looping function or a macro that uses "SU1" or "SU2" etc as a starting point for creation, correct naming, and relocating the new variables. The things I have tried so far have not gotten me anywhere.
Any ideas?
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