Using the COUNT command within a LOOP command

Troubleshooting

Problem

First, using a VECTOR as the target of the COUNT command does not work. Example. VECTOR v(10). COUNT v(1) = var1 TO var10 (2). will return the error: >Error # 4570 in column 8. Text: ( >On the COUNT command, the count variable was not followed by the required >equals sign. >Execution of this command stops. You can however use variable substitution (I.e. DO REPEAT) for the target. You also can't use any form of variable for the value list. Example: COMPUTE ValueToCount = 1. COUNT newvar = var1 TO var10 (ValueToCount). as this returns the error: >Error # 4772 in column 19. Text: ValueToCount >On the COUNT command, the parenthesized value list is syntactically invalid. >Execution of this command stops. This prevents use of a variable to define the value to be counted.

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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