Examples (DROP DOCUMENTS command)

GET FILE="/data/gensoc.sav" 
  /KEEP=AGE SEX EDUC MARITAL CHILDRN MED_INS.
 
DROP DOCUMENTS.
 
FILE LABEL  General Social Survey Subset.
DOCUMENT    This file contains a subset of variables from the
            General Social Survey data.  For each case it records
            only the age, sex, education level, marital status,
            number of children, and type of medical insurance 
            coverage.

SAVE OUTFILE="/data/subsoc.sav".

• DROP DOCUMENTS drops the documentation text from data file. Only the new documentation added with the DOCUMENT command is saved in file subsoc.sav.
• The original file gensoc.sav is unchanged.