FILE Specification (MATRIX-END MATRIX command)

FILE designates the IBM® SPSS® Statistics data file to be read. Use an asterisk, or simply omit the FILE specification, to designate the current active dataset.

• The file reference can be either a filename enclosed in quotes or a file handle defined on a FILE HANDLE command that precedes the matrix program.
• Both dataset references and physical file specifications are supported.
• If you omit the FILE specification, the active dataset is used.
• In a matrix program executed with the INCLUDE command, if a SPLIT FILE command is in effect, a GET statement that references the active dataset will read a single split-file group of cases. (A matrix program cannot be executed from a syntax window if a SPLIT FILE command is in effect.)