Is there a report listing when using the RECODE statement?

[pierrew]

I have been using the recode statement and instead of writing a lengthy code to track the number of items that have been recoded and I was wondering if CSPro has a listing file that records the number of recodes just like what is reported when using the impute statement.

Thanks,
Pierre

[pierrew]

Hey Greg ... can you implement something like this? change two data items on a single recode?

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Format:
recode var-1 [:var-2 [:var-n]]   => var-out-1 => var-out-2;
    [range-1] [:range-2 [:range-n]]  => exp-1  =>  exp-2;
    [range-1] [:range-2 [:range-n]]  => exp-1  =>  exp-2;
    : : :
    [: [:]]   => other-exp-1 => other-exp-2;
endrecode;

[Gregory Martin]

There's no listing report generated during the recode. The recode is a pretty dumb function, in that it can't do anything clever like you suggest. Can you just recode the value to a temporary variable and then use the impute function to assign it to the desired variable so that you'll get that error report?

Alternatively, you can use the output of a function as the assignment value, so you could log stuff yourself like this:

function LogRecode(value)
    write("Recoding to %d",value);
    LogRecode = value;
end;

// ...

recode  XXX     =>  YYY;
        1-10    =>  LogRecode(1);
        11-99   =>  LogRecode(2);
endrecode;

The multiple output recode is an interesting idea. I'll add it to the feature request list as something that we could implement.

[pierrew]

Thanks Greg,
I haven't thought about using a function to track data item changes. Excellent.

peace-