Statscraft 0.7.0, release v0.7.0

ALTER TYPE

Change the type, string width or format of variables.

Syntax

ALTER TYPE varlist ([input =] format | AMIN [+ n[%]]) [varlist (...) ...] [/PRINT ...].
A string variable may get another width (A20); values longer than it are cut. A numeric
variable may get another numeric format, or become a string holding its formatted
values; a string may become numeric with an F, COMMA or DOT format, a value that is no
number becoming system-missing. A type change drops value labels and missing values.
input = (A=, F=, A10=) limits the change to variables of that type and width.
AMIN gives a string variable the width of its longest value, plus n bytes or n percent of
that width (rounded).
/PRINT is accepted; no report is shown.

Example

ALTER TYPE comment (A500) code (A=AMIN).

statscraft help ALTER TYPE prints the same text in the terminal. All commands