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.
(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.