John,

The only way I can think of is to put them in arrays grouped by the initial value desired and loop through all the array entries.

HTH, Dennis Diskin

On 4/15/05, Bonett, John <jbonett@ets.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a way to reset retained values to their initial value once > an observation is outputted without having to reference all the variable > names again? > > For instance, if I have a long list of retained numeric and character > values.... > > retain score_alpha score_beta.......... 0; > retain type_alpha type_beta....... ''; > > is there a way to avoid doing this... > > if "condition" then do; > output; > score_alpha=0;score_beta=0...... > end; > > I work in windows with V9.1. Thanks in advance for your help! > > ************************************ > John Bonett > ETS > R & D Division > jbonett@ets.org <mailto:jbonett@ets.org> > > "If your experiment works, you obviously did something wrong."- > addendum to Murphy's Law > > ************************************ > > ************************************************************************** > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain privileged or > confidential information. It is solely for use by the individual for whom > it is intended, even if addressed incorrectly. If you received this e-mail > in error, please notify the sender; do not disclose, copy, distribute, or > take any action in reliance on the contents of this information; and delete > it from your system. Any other use of this e-mail is prohibited. Thank you > for your compliance. >