Re: macro processing examples for PSPP

[Ben Pfaff]

(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 <blp@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
> <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.