Coding Help

[kmmille3]

Lesson learned, always save syntax!!!

I have a variable that has negative values. I want to code them as missing.

I went to transform new variable.

lowest through highest 0 and then coded it as 1.
Then I assigned all other cases as sysmis.

I'm pretty sure I need to do a select if case... but I can't remember how to do this correctly.

Logically it should be something like:

if variable < or equal to 0 variable= missing.
if variable > or greater to 0 variable =1.

Thanks for any help!

[lorb]

Is this what you want? The following Syntax should be equal to what you are describing here:

if variable < or equal to 0 variable= missing.
if variable > or greater to 0 variable =1.

DO IF your_variable<=0.
   COMPUTE new_variable=$sysmis.
ELSE.
   COMPUTE new_variable=1.
END IF.

edit: there is a very useful 2000 pages pdf syntax reference file available from ibm. it's great if you already know the name of a command and just need some details on it or how it works. link: IBM_SPSS_Statistics_Command_Syntax_Reference.pdf