IF Subcommand (OUTPUT MODIFY Command)

COMMANDS Keyword

The COMMANDS keyword restricts the selection to the specified commands. The keyword COMMANDS must be followed by an equals sign (=) and a list of quoted command identifiers enclosed in square bracket, as in:

OUTPUT MODIFY
 /SELECT TABLES
 /IF COMMANDS = ['Frequencies' 'Factor Analysis']
  ...

The command identifier can be followed by a value in parentheses. The value can be an integer that indicates the instance of the command or the keyword LAST. The keyword LAST can be used by itself to specify the output of the last command before OUTPUT MODIFY. For example:

OUTPUT MODIFY
  /SELECT TABLES
  /IF COMMANDS=['Frequencies(2)', 'Descriptives(LAST)', LAST]
  ...

In this example, the specified changes are applied to:

• The second instance of the FREQUENCIES command.
• The last instance of the DESCRIPTIVES command.
• The last command before the OUTPUT MODIFY command, if that command contains pivot table output.

Command identifiers are:

• Unique. No two commands have the same identifier.
• Not case-sensitive.
• Not subject to translation, which means they are the same for all language versions and output languages.
• Often not the same or even similar to the command name. You can obtain the identifier for a particular command by generating output from the command in the Viewer and then right-clicking the command heading in the outline pane and selecting Copy OMS Command Identifier from the menu.

Command identifiers are available for all statistical and charting procedures and any other commands that produce blocks of output with their own identifiable heading in the outline pane of the Viewer. For example, CASESTOVARS and VARSTOCASES have corresponding identifiers ('Cases to Variables' and 'Variables to Cases') because they produce their own output blocks (with command headings in the outline pane that happen to match the identifiers), but FLIP does not because any output produced by FLIP is included in a generic Log text object.

SUBTYPES Keyword

The SUBTYPES keyword restricts the selection to the specified table types The keyword SUBTYPES must be followed by an equals sign (=) and a list of quoted subtype identifiers enclosed in square bracket, as in:

OUTPUT MODIFY
 /SELECT TABLES
 /IF SUBTYPES = ['Descriptive Statistics' 'Coefficients']
 ...

• Subtypes apply only to tables that would be displayed as pivot tables in the Viewer.
• Like command identifiers, subtype identifiers are not case-sensitive and are not subject to translation.
• Unlike command identifiers, subtype identifiers are not necessarily unique. For example, multiple commands produce a table with the subtype identifier "Descriptive Statistics," but not all of those tables share the same structure. If you want only a particular table type for a particular command, use both the COMMANDS and SUBTYPES keywords.
• You can obtain the identifier for a particular table by generating output from the command in the Viewer and then right-clicking outline item for the Table in the outline pane of the Viewer and selecting Copy OMS Table Subtype from the menu. The identifiers are generally fairly descriptive of the particular table type.

LABELS Keyword

The LABELS keyword selects particular output objects according to the text displayed in the outline pane of the Viewer. The keyword LABELS must be followed by an equals sign (=) and a list of expressions enclosed in square brackets, as in:

OUTPUT MODiFY
 /SELECT TABLES
 /IF LABELS = [EXACT('Age'), CONTAINS('Crosstabulation')]
 ...

• Each expression must start with a keyword, followed by a quoted value enclosed in parentheses.
• Valid keywords are EXACT, CONTAINS, BEGINS, and ENDS.
• Label values are case-sensitive.

The LABELS keyword is useful for differentiating between multiple graphs or multiple tables of the same type in which the outline text reflects some attribute of the particular output object such as the variable names or labels. There are, however, a number of factors that can affect the label text:

• If split file processing is on, split file group identification is often appended to the label.
• Labels that include information about variables or values are affected by the OVARS and ONUMBERS settings on the SET command.
• Labels are affected by the current output language setting (SET OLANG).

INSTANCES Keyword

The INSTANCES subcommand selects the nth instance of an object that matches the other criteria on the IF subcommand within a single instance of a command. The keyword INSTANCES must be followed by an equals sign (=) and a list of positive integers or the keyword LAST enclosed in square brackets.

Example

OUTPUT MODIFY
 /SELECT TABLES
 /IF COMMANDS = ['Frequencies'] 
     SUBTYPES = ['Frequencies']
     INSTANCES = [1 LAST]
 ...
OUTPUT MODIFY
 /SELECT TABLES
 /IF COMMANDS = ['Frequencies']
     INSTANCES = [1 LAST] 
 ...

• The first command selects the first and last frequency tables from each FREQUENCIES command.
• The second command, in the absence of a SUBTYPES or LABELS specification, selects the first and last tables of any kind from the selected command.

VISIBLEONLY Keyword

The VISIBLEONLY keyword indicates if the changes should be applied to all output objects that meet the selection criteria or only those objects that meet the criteria and are currently visible in the Viewer document (objects can be present but hidden).

VISIBLEONLY=NO

Changes are applied to both visible and hidden objects.

VISIBLE=YES

Changes are applied only to visible objects.