Re:

[Larry Gray]

Thank you for the info.  I am differently in over my head on this program and was hoping for a simple (1 click) solution.  I can follow your suggestion and make it work.  I have created a new column with only the info I wanted to break out.  That has worked but it is a lot of extra steps.  Thanks again.

Larry

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Germano Rossi <address@hidden> wrote:

2014-09-22 2:45 GMT+02:00 Larry Gray <address@hidden>:

I have used SPSS at a university and on that program I can go to data/select cases/ and a drop down box allows me to pick a range of information from a particular column and select that....for example if I want to select only certain ages from a group (ages 13-20 from a column of ages 5-55) I can do that and it only selects those ages.  Is there a way to do that in PSPP?  I hope I am being clear.

Sintax is the better universal solution, ma if you wish use menu...

Menu solution:

1) create a new variable to use as filter

   Transform | Recode into Different variable

2) select cases using filter variable

   Data | Select cases | Use Filter variable

Bye, Germano

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