SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

418 DATA LIST
the second case, POSTPOS has value 7 and NWINS has value 5, and so on. The working
data file will contain eight cases.
• The two commas without intervening space after the data value 3 indicate a missing data
value.
Example
* Data in list format.
DATA LIST LIST (",")/ POSTPOS NWINS.
BEGIN DATA
2,19
7,5
10,25
5,17
8,11
3,
6,8
1,29
END DATA.
• This example defines the same data as the previous example, but LIST is used because
each case is recorded on a separate record. FREE could also be used. However, LIST is
less prone to errors in data entry. If you leave out a value in the data with FREE format,
all values after the missing value are assigned to the wrong variable. Since LIST format
reads a case from each record, a missing value will affect only one case.
• A comma is specified as the delimiter between values.
• Since line endings are interpreted as delimiters between values, the second comma after
the value 3 (in the sixth line of data) is not necessary to indicate that the value of NWINS
is missing for that case.
TABLE and NOTABLE Subcommands
TABLE displays a table summarizing the variable definitions supplied on DATA LIST. NOTABLE
suppresses the summary table. TABLE is the default.
• TABLE and NOTABLE can be used only for fixed-format data.
• TABLE and NOTABLE must be separated from other DATA LIST subcommands by at least
one blank or comma.
• TABLE and NOTABLE must precede the first slash, which signals the beginning of variable
definition.
RECORDS Subcommand
RECORDS indicates the number of records per case for fixed-format data. In the variable
definition portion of DATA LIST, each record is preceded by a slash. By default, DATA LIST
reads one record per case.
• The only specification on RECORDS is a single integer indicating the total number of
records for each case (even if the DATA LIST command does not define all the records).