• How to insert a comment into output via syntax?

    From Santiago Sotelo@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 2 19:53:43 2021
    El Saturday, October 14, 2006 a la(s) 8:31:37 PM UTC-5, Haris escribió:
    COMMENT outputs as SPSS Log in the output and does not ouput anything
    if you SET PRINTBACK to OFF. I am still looking for a way to output
    "SPSS Text" not "Log." Anybody know if this is possible or is SPSS
    Text only available via pull-down menus?
    Thanks
    Lawrence wrote:
    Thanks Richard,

    Simple and Great..

    For more detail information about COMMENT available in SPSSBASE.pdf.
    page number 267.

    Thanks,

    Lawrence.
    ECHO works perfectly fine.

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  • From Arnaldo Ferrari Nasi@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 25 23:44:21 2023
    string MESSAGE (a1000).
    compute MESSAGE = "This is a trick to swindle SPSS".
    exe.
    temp.
    sel if ($casenum =1).
    list MESSAGE.
    delete variable MESSAGE.

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