That makes sense. Thanks for the follow-up, and let us know if you suspect that there is anything wrong with PSPP.
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:23:35AM +1100, Stuart McKenzie wrote: > Hi Ben > > Thanks for the follow up. The error was a 'kind of' red herring. I have > a script that needs to run across 2 different data sources and the > variable list doesn't quite match between them. I was wanting to use the > DO IF block to execute a specific set of actions against only one of the > data sources, as the block referred to a variable that was only in one of > the data sources. So I suspect that it is the compilation and validation > of the script that was throwing the error when it encounters a reference > to a variable that isn't in the script. I had erroneously thought that the > error was being thrown during execution, not validation. > > Regards > Stuart > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@cs.stanford.edu] > Sent: Monday, 3 February 2014 5:04 AM > To: Stuart McKenzie > Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org > Subject: Re: DO IF Block appears to execute regardless > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:49:33PM +1100, Stuart McKenzie wrote: > > I have a block of code > > > > COMPUTE PulseCheck = INDEX(UPCASE(@JobName),"PULSE") > 0. > > > > DO IF (PulseCheck < 1). > > Recode CONT (Convert) into CONT1. > > *do other stuff > > END IF. > > > > If I include the line > > LIST PulseCheck > > I see that PulseCheck is being calculated correctly so that line > > appears to be correct, however, the DO IF block of code currently > > executes regardless of the value of PulseCheck. This script is used to > > run across 2 data files, one of which has the CONT variable and the > > other doesn't, so I need to skip over this block when the CONT > > variable does not exist. Am I missing something stupidly obvious > > here? The less preferred solution is to use 2 scripts, but that has > > other implications which I would prefer not to have to deal with. > > I finally took a look at this. Sorry about the long delay. > > I can't reproduce the problem here. When I run the following, for > example: > > DATA LIST LIST NOTABLE/input. > BEGIN DATA. > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > END DATA. > DO IF input < 3. > RECODE input (1=2)(ELSE=COPY) INTO output. > END IF. > LIST. > > I see the expected output: > > Data List > input output > ----------------- > 1.00 2.00 > 2.00 2.00 > 3.00 . > 4.00 . > 5.00 . > > which shows that indeed the RECODE isn't doing anything for input values > less than 3. > > If you can provide a complete example of syntax that doesn't behave as you > expect, I'll figure out the problem. > > Thanks, > > Ben. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
