SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

420 DATA LIST
• RECORDS indicates there are three records for each case in the data.
• YRHIRED is the only variable defined on the first record. The FORTRAN-like format specification
T14 means tab over 14 columns. Thus, YRHIRED begins in column 14 and has
format F2.0.
• The second record is skipped. Because the record sequence numbers are not specified, a
slash must be used to skip the second record.
• NAME is the only variable defined for the third record. NAME begins in column 25 and is
a string variable with a width of 24 characters (format A24).
Example
DATA LIST FILE=HUBDATA RECORDS=3
/YRHIRED NAME (T14,F2.0 / / T25,A24).
• This command is equivalent to the one in the previous example. YRHIRED is located on
the first record, and NAME is located on the third record.
• The slashes that indicate the second and third records are specified within the format specifications.
The format specifications follow the complete variable list.
SKIP Subcommand
SKIP skips the first n records of the data file.
Example
DATA LIST LIST SKIP=2 /numvar.
BEGIN DATA
Some text describing the file
followed by some more text
1
2
3
END DATA.
END Subcommand
END provides control of end-of-file processing by specifying a variable that is set to a value
of 0 until the end of the data file is encountered, at which point the variable is set to 1. The
values of all variables named on DATA LIST are left unchanged. The logical variable created
with END can then be used on DO IF and LOOP commands to invoke special processing after
all the cases from a particular input file have been built.
• DATA LIST and the entire set of commands used to define the cases must be enclosed
within an INPUT PROGRAM—END INPUT PROGRAM structure. The END FILE command
must also be used to signal the end of case generation.
• END can be used only with fixed-format data. An error is generated if the END subcommand
is used with FREE or LIST.