Re: save translate output and filtering

[ftr]

On 27/01/2015 17:27, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.
I understand now that the sub-command concerns the data output only. I 
feared it meant that it deleted the unselected cases in the file of origin.