* I have a question concerning concatenating many string * variables, I have 22 A1 string variables, say: * a1, a2, a3, ..., a22, I would like to calculate a string a(43): * a = a1-a2-a3-....-a22. * How can I do it without writing: compute a = concat(a1, '-', a2, '-',..., a22). * Posted to SPSSX-L by Raynald Levesque on 2004/03/02. DATA LIST FREE /a1 TO a22 (22A1). BEGIN DATA a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w END DATA. STRING a(A43). VECTOR a=a1 TO a22. LOOP cnt=1 TO 21. - COMPUTE a=CONCAT(RTRIM(a),a(cnt),"-") . END LOOP. - COMPUTE a=CONCAT(RTRIM(a),a(22)) . EXECUTE. VARIABLE WIDTH a (43).