Date:         Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:13:36 +0800
Reply-To:     LAI Man Kin <h9408159@yahoo.com>
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From:         LAI Man Kin <h9408159@yahoo.com>
Subject:      Several hundreds IF lines
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Dear SPSS users,

I have to assign different values to 30000+ cases of different backgrounds (e.g., sex, age in
year, district, etc.) and I use the command "IF (condition) var=(value)". Since the combination of
the background variables are over several hundreds (two sexes times 10 ages in year times 18
districts ...) and running the syntax takes me several minutes. Is there a faster way to
accomplish this (in syntax writing and in running)? Thank you.

Simon.