Short .por-names to Long

' RenamePortShortToLong.sbs
' Posted to SPSSX-List by Jon Peck on 2004/02/13

Option Explicit

Sub Main
'BEGIN DESCRIPTION
'This script presumes that an Export command has written a correspondence table to
'a file in OMS XML format.  It renames all variables with short names to the original long ones.
'END DESCRIPTION

Dim theline As String
Dim shortname As String, longname As String, startloc As Long, endloc As Long
Dim shortlong As String
On Error GoTo error_rename

Const FILENAME ="c:\\temp\\exportnamelist.xml"            ' change this as appropriate

Const STARTPATTERN="<line>Abbreviated  Extended</line><line>Name         Name</line><line> </line>"
Const ENDPATTERN= "<line>omsend.</line>"
Const STARTLINE = "<line>"
Const ENDLINE = "</line>"

Open FILENAME For Input As #1
Line Input #1, theline
startloc = InStr(theline, STARTPATTERN)
If (startloc = 0) Then
        GoTo exit_rename
End If

theline = Mid(theline, startloc+ Len(STARTPATTERN))

Do
        endloc = InStr(theline, ENDLINE)
        shortlong = Mid(theline, Len(STARTLINE)+1, endloc - Len(STARTLINE)-1)           'short and long name'
        theline = Mid(theline, endloc + Len(ENDLINE))
        shortname = Left(shortlong, InStr(shortlong, " "))
        longname = Mid(shortlong, Len(shortname)+1)
        objSpssApp.ExecuteCommands("RENAME VARIABLES " & shortname & "=" & longname & ".", False)
Loop Until Left(theline, Len(ENDPATTERN)) = ENDPATTERN

exit_rename:
Close #1
Exit Sub

error_rename:
        MsgBox(Err.Description)
        GoTo exit_rename
End Sub