Escape Sequence (General Concept)

Introduction An escape sequence is a combination of characters that has a special meaning. Escape Sequences in General Some characters imply a special function rather than their “normal” meaning. For example, ‘ often implies the start or the end of a string. But what if you actually mean ‘ rather than a string? In that case you can escape its default meaning by prefixing […]

Substring (General Concept)

A substring is a subset of characters from a string. Extracting substrings in SPSS is done with CHAR.SUBSTR (SPSS versions 16+) or just SUBSTR (SPSS versions 15-). CHAR.SUBSTR takes two or three arguments as shown by the minimal example below. SPSS CHAR.SUBSTR – Minimal Example COMPUTE var_2 = CHAR.SUBSTR(var_1,3,2). The three arguments mean the following: var_1 denotes the variable […]

SPSS SPLIT FILE – A Quick Tutorial

SPLIT FILE is a command for having separate output for subsets of cases. It does not literally split your file into smaller files. Subsets are defined by the values on one or more split variables. After running SPLIT FILE, output is reported for each split group separately until you run SPLIT FILE OFF.Example of output […]

Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere

Now with the all-new signature sync feature, you can quickly take a picture of your signature using the Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app and use it when signing across desktop, web, and mobile devices. When you save your signature, it’s automatically uploaded to Adobe Document Cloud in the background and synced to all your devices […]