*QUESTION: I need to restructure a file from one line per case to many line per case. * I would like the former variable name to become the value labels of the new file. ANSWER by * rlevesque@videotron.ca. * Note that the variable name casen is used instead of case. It is not a good idea to use variable names which corresponds to reserved words. Same comment applies to value (I used value1). * ###### NOTE###### the technique used in this syntax (the syntax literally writes a portion of the syntax) is * very powerful and is used in all kinds of solutions. DATA LIST LIST /ant_s ant_r infer_s infer_r casen. BEGIN DATA 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 2 3 END DATA. VARIABLE LABEL ant_s 'anterior_stress' ant_r 'anterior_rest' infer_s 'inferior_stress' infer_r 'inferior_rest'. LIST. SAVE OUTFILE='c:\\temp\\data.sav'. MATCH FILES FILE=* /DROP=casen. FLIP. STRING labelstr(A10). COMPUTE labelstr=CONCAT("'",case_lbl,"'"). COMPUTE segment=$casenum. FORMATS segment (F8.0). WRITE OUTFILE 'c:\\temp\\temp.sps' /"ADD VALUE LABELS segment "segment " " labelstr ".". EXE. GET FILE='c:\\temp\\data.sav'. * this is your code segment. VECTOR yvec = ant_s TO infer_r. LOOP segment = 1 to 4. COMPUTE value1=yvec(segment). XSAVE OUTFILE="c:\\temp\\mahr_vec.sav" / KEEP segment casen value1. END LOOP. EXECUTE. GET FILE="c:\\temp\\mahr_vec.sav". *end of your code. *Next line does the trick. INCLUDE 'c:\\temp\\temp.sps'.