X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fcombining.texi;h=a237c1a5bded14506120ad10b18df53e6a686bf8;hb=60c545e6e958d868db3399a8989d37d8f9e0c131;hp=ad2ed03e3fddfe0929167db1540aa61066174e90;hpb=691a034d7f2139076fa012739dffd40ef5db4a9b;p=pspp diff --git a/doc/combining.texi b/doc/combining.texi index ad2ed03e3f..a237c1a5bd 100644 --- a/doc/combining.texi +++ b/doc/combining.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @c PSPP - a program for statistical analysis. -@c Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 2017, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 @c or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ This section describes the syntactical features in common among the @cmd{ADD FILES}, @cmd{MATCH FILES}, and @cmd{UPDATE} commands. The following sections describe details specific to each command. -Each of these commands reads two or more input files and combines them. +Each of these commands reads two or more input files and combines them. The command's output becomes the new active dataset. None of the commands actually change the input files. Therefore, if you want the changes to become permanent, you must explicitly @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Each @subcmd{FILE} subcommand may be followed by any number of @subcmd{RENAME} subcommands that specify a parenthesized group or groups of variable names as they appear in the input file, followed by those variables' new names, separated by an equals sign (@subcmd{=}), -e.g. @subcmd{/RENAME=(OLD1=NEW1)(OLD2=NEW2)}. To rename a single +@i{e.g.} @subcmd{/RENAME=(OLD1=NEW1)(OLD2=NEW2)}. To rename a single variable, the parentheses may be omitted: @subcmd{/RENAME=@var{old}=@var{new}}. Within a parenthesized group, variables are renamed simultaneously, so that @subcmd{/RENAME=(@var{A} @var{B}=@var{B} @var{A})} exchanges the @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ Once per command: @end display @cmd{UPDATE} updates a @dfn{master file} by applying modifications -from one or more @dfn{transaction files}. +from one or more @dfn{transaction files}. @cmd{UPDATE} shares the bulk of its syntax with other @pspp{} commands for combining multiple data files. @xref{Combining Files Common Syntax},