Is it a bug or a feature

[Crichton, Ronald]

I found an interesting thing.  With this piece of code you will note the only essential difference is that variable e329 is repeated in one and not in the other.  However, the output of both is identical.  The command ignores the repeated variable.  It may be that a user might want to see the variable twice, maybe not.  The thing is the command doesn’t report what it was asked to do.  Of course, there would be easy ways around this, but I just wanted to note it for your consideration.

 

get file VLL.

 

save translate

                /outfile = 'I:\SUPPORT_COMMON\Statistics Unit\PLANNING\POLICY\STATS\2012\2012 whole year data verification\VLL_TEMP1.txt'

                /type = TAB

                /replace

                /keep = e329 e329 e477 e358 e490 e577 eftsl.

execute.

 

save translate

                /outfile = 'I:\SUPPORT_COMMON\Statistics Unit\PLANNING\POLICY\STATS\2012\2012 whole year data verification\VLL_TEMP1b.txt'

                /type = TAB

                /replace

                /keep = e329 e477 e358 e490 e577 eftsl.

execute.

 

 

 

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