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.