Re: save translate output and filtering

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 01:01:13PM +0100, ftr wrote:
> I filtered the working file through a filter variable k with the two values
> of 0 and 1:
> FILTER by k.
> A control of the frequencies proves that only cases for k=1 are left.
> 
> I then output the filtered file with save translate:
> 
> only want to output the party of the file
> save translate
> /outFILE="C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\EVS-WVS\soctrust2.dat"
> /type = csv
> /replace
> /fieldname
> /keep  intrust3 outtrust3 soctrust k.
> 
> And the dat file gets all data, filtered and unfiltered.
> 
> Is this intended behaviour : a FILTER command does not control a SAVE
> TRANSLATE command ?

That's the default.  As the manual says, you can specify
UNSELECTED=DELETE if you want to omit them.