spss.GetVariableName Function (Python)

spss.GetVariableName(index). Returns a character string containing the variable name for the variable in the active dataset indicated by the index value. The argument is the index value. Index values represent position in the active dataset, starting with 0 for the first variable in file order.

Example

#get names of first and last variables in the file
#last variable is index value N-1 because index values start at 0
firstVar=spss.GetVariableName(0)
lastVar=spss.GetVariableName(spss.GetVariableCount()-1)
print firstVar, lastVar
#sort the data file in alphabetic order of variable names
varlist=[]
varcount=spss.GetVariableCount()
for i in range(varcount):
  varlist.append(spss.GetVariableName(i))
sortedlist=' '.join(sorted(varlist))
spss.Submit(
  ["ADD FILES FILE=* /KEEP ",sortedlist, ".", "EXECUTE."])