Date:         Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:10:55 -0400
Reply-To:     Gene Maguin <emaguin@buffalo.edu>
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From:         Gene Maguin <emaguin@buffalo.edu>
Subject:      Re: Merge problems
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Mike,

I don't know why you having the troubles you are having. I'd like to suggest
a different tack on the problem. You said 'There is a subset of variables in
the latest working file (that has been modified through coding/recoding and
labeling) that is also in the other file.' Let's call this fileA. You
continue 'The other file is an earlier version with a few additional
variables that were dropped inadvertently from the working file when some
operations - primarily SAVE with a different order - were done.' Let's call
this fileB. As I understand you, you want to drop some variable from fileA
and add those variables back from in from fileB. Looking at the syntax in
your first post it seemed that there were variable name change issues but
that wasn't so clear to me. This is clunky, not svelte at all. But, so what.

Get file=fileB/keep=id x1 to x23/rename (x1 to x23=y1 to y23).
Save outfile=fileB1.
Get file=fileA/drop=y1 to y23.
Match files file=*/file=fileB1/by id.

I noticed that in your posted syntax you had no 'by' subcommand. Perhaps
that was omitted for clarity.

Gene Maguin









-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Mike Pritchard
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 10:43 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Merge problems

Sorry for my lack of clarity.  There is a subset of variables in the latest
working file (that has been modified through coding/recoding and labeling)
that is also in the other file.  The other file is an earlier version with a
few additional variables that were dropped inadvertently from the working
file when some operations - primarily SAVE with a different order - were
done.  So I needed to recover these variables.

I don't think UPDATE would work in this case, and there is no need to rename
as the variables are not duplicates.

Thanks for your help.
Mike

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