VARIABLES Subcommand (DISPLAY command)

VARIABLES (alias NAMES) limits the displayed information to a set of specified variables. VARIABLES must be the last specification on DISPLAY and can follow any specification that requests information about variables (all except VECTOR, SCRATCH, DOCUMENTS, and MACROS).

• The only specification is a slash followed by a list of variables. The slash is optional.
• If the keyword SORTED is not specified, information is displayed in the order in which variables are stored in the active dataset, regardless of the order in which variables are named on VARIABLES.

Example

DISPLAY SORTED DICTIONARY
 /VARIABLES=DEPT, SALARY, SEX TO JOBCAT.

• DISPLAY exhibits dictionary information only for the variables named and implied by the keyword TO on the VARIABLES subcommand, sorted alphabetically by variable name.