Here is a follow up to my earlier reply. Clearly I wasn't thinking in simple terms when I proposed the complicated solution. Analysis has access to two (and maybe more) very useful 'hidden' variables:
RECNUMBER - (real number) the current record number (based on current sort) RECDELETED - (Y/N) the deletion status of the current record You onlly have access to these in LET statements. You cannot LIST or BROWSE them or use commands like FREQ on them.
So the simple solution to finding deleted records in Analysis is:
read file1 list if recdeleted
will list all fields for deleted records only. Of course it make more sense just to list a few of them, or to use browse. However, list will give a written record of them.
A more elegant solution is this:
read file1 gen i file1rec = recnumber // create a new variable to hold recnumber type "Record number and subject ID for deleted records" /h2 list file1rec idvar if recdeleted
Jamie Hockin
Henriette wrote:
Is there a fast way that the data entry supervisor can find the deleted files in a record?