Re: macro processing examples for PSPP

[Ben Pfaff]

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
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> There are a lot of examples at 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.