You cannot use <A > with DEFINE. Since you are not asking anyone to enter data, just use _______ Jamie

On 2012-06-19, Walter wrote:

I have a relational data base and I want to create a temporary variable in Epidata with the command below:

BEFORE FILE DEFINE nameTemp <A > GLOBAL END

but I get the error message beleow:

Illegal scope in DEFINE command. Use GLOBAL or CUMULATIVE in line 364: DEFINE nameTemp <A > GLOBAL