Command File

A command file is a text file that contains syntax commands. You can type commands in a syntax window in an interactive session, use the Paste button in dialog boxes to paste generated commands into a syntax window, and/or use any text editor to create a command file. You can also edit a journal file to produce a command file. See the topic Journal File for more information. The following is an example of a simple command file that contains both commands and inline data:

DATA LIST /ID 1-3 Gender 4 (A) Age 5-6 Opinion1 TO Opinion5 7-11.
BEGIN DATA
001F2621221
002M5611122
003F3422212
329M2121212
END DATA.
LIST. 

• Case does not matter for commands but is significant for inline data. If you specified f for female and m for male in column 4 of the data line, the value of Gender would be f or m instead of F or M as it is now.
• Commands can be in upper or lower case. Uppercase characters are used for all commands throughout this manual only to distinguish them from other text.