SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

1116 OMS
be followed by an equals sign (=) and a list of positive integers and/or the keyword LAST enclosed
in square brackets.
Example
OMS
/SELECT TABLES
/IF COMMANDS = [’Frequencies’]
SUBTYPES = [’Frequencies’]
INSTANCES = [1 LAST]
/DESTINATION...
OMS
/SELECT TABLES
/IF COMMANDS = [’Frequencies’]
INSTANCES = [1 LAST]
/DESTINATION...
• The first OMS command will select the first and last frequency tables from each FRE-
QUENCIES command.
• The second OMS command, in the absence of a SUBTYPES or LABELS specification, will
select the first and last tables of any kind from the selected command. For the FREQUEN-
CIES command (and most other statistical and charting procedures), the first table would
be the Notes table.
Wildcards
For COMMANDS, SUBTYPES, and LABELS, you can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard indicator
at the end of a quoted string to include all commands, tables, and/or charts that start with
that quoted string, as in:
OMS
/SELECT TABLES
/IF SUBTYPES = [’Correlation*’]
/DESTINATION...
In this example, all table subtypes that begin with "Correlation" will be selected.
The values of LABELS can contain asterisks as part of the value as in "First variable * Second
variable Crosstabulation," but only an asterisk as the last character in the quoted string
is interpreted as a wildcard, so:
OMS
/SELECT TABLES
/IF LABELS = [’First Variable **’]
/DESTINATION...
will select all tables with labels that start with "First Variable *".
EXCEPTIF Subcommand
The EXCEPTIF subcommand excludes specified output object types. It has the same keywords
and syntax as IF, with the exception of INSTANCES, which will cause an error if used
with EXCEPTIF.