My bad - sorry.
On 5/9/21 5:26 PM, Matthias Faeth wrote:
The documentation says
"|MPRINT| is effective only when |MEXPAND| is |ON| and is independent
of the |PRINTBACK| subcommand."
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-statistics/SaaS?topic=set-mexpand-mprint-subcommands-command
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-statistics/SaaS?topic=set-mexpand-mprint-subcommands-command>
+ no it does not print it even if "set printback=on." is included.
Am So., 9. Mai 2021 um 16:17 Uhr schrieb Frans Houweling
<fhouwel...@email.it <mailto:fhouwel...@email.it>>:
It should print the expanded macro. Do you have SET PRINTBACK = ON. ?
On 5/9/21 3:25 PM, Matthias Faeth wrote:
It seems that MPRINT does not do anything in the output. Whether
it is set to on or off there is no reprinting of macros. At least
with the type of macros I use.
Am Di., 4. Mai 2021 um 20:38 Uhr schrieb Ben Pfaff
<b...@cs.stanford.edu <mailto:b...@cs.stanford.edu>>:
(I have 7700 examples of SPSS output and none of them
contains the
string MPRINT.)
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:36 AM Ben Pfaff
<b...@cs.stanford.edu <mailto:b...@cs.stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
> Usually, it's pretty clear what macro examples do and what
they expand to.
> I'm looking for an MPRINT example because I want to know
how macro
> expansion looks in output; I haven't seen any examples.
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 1:04 AM John Darrington
> <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au
<mailto:j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>> wrote:
> >
> > There are a lot of examples at
https://www.spsstools.net/en/macros/
<https://www.spsstools.net/en/macros/>
> >
> > Unfortunately however very few of them come with the
expected output,
> > which somewhat limits the site's usefullness.
> >
> > J'
> >
> > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:24:55AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Some time ago I asked for examples of CTABLES
(Custom Tables).
> > I received a few examples from one person. I noticed
that all of his
> > examples used the SPSS macro processor (the DEFINE
command),
> > so I decided to implement that as a prerequisite for
CTABLES. Over
> > the last few weeks, I've been doing that, and last
night I got a
> > prototype implementation of it working. There is
still a lot of work to
> > do, and the SPSS documentation is ambiguous in many
ways, so
> > I'd appreciate it if anyone who uses DEFINE sends me
examples.
> > Examples that use the various functions (especially
!EVAL, which
> > is a mystery) or !IF or !LOOP are especially
welcome. I haven't
> > been able to find any examples of !EVAL and the
description is
> > unclear.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben.
