Re: macro processing examples for PSPP

[Frans Houweling]

It should print the expanded macro. Do you have SET PRINTBACK = ON. ?

On 5/9/21 3:25 PM, Matthias Faeth wrote:

It seems that MPRINT does not do anything in the output. Whether it is set to on or off there is no reprinting of macros. At least with the type of macros I use.

Am Di., 4. Mai 2021 um 20:38 Uhr schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:

(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.