OUTFILE Subcommand (CATREG command)

The OUTFILE subcommand is used to write the discretized data and/or the transformed data (category indicators replaced with optimal quantifications) to a data file or previously declared data set name. Excluded cases are represented by a dot (the sysmis symbol) on every saved variable.

DISCRDATA('savfile'|'dataset') . Discretized data.

TRDATA('savfile'|'dataset'). Transformed variables.

• Filenames should be enclosed in quotes and are stored in the working directory unless a path is included as part of the file specification. Data sets are available during the current session but are not available in subsequent sessions unless you explicitly save them as data files.
• An active data set, in principle, should not be replaced by this subcommand, and the asterisk (*) file specification is not supported. This strategy also prevents the OUTFILE interference with the SAVE subcommand.