Re: Count system missing columns

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:44:12AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
> I have a number of datasets with slightly different columns and I'm
> wondering if I can wrote generic code in PSPP to count the missing columns.
> 
> For example, if I knew that the first and last column were, say, ID and
> X100, then I could count the missing this way:
> 
> count miss = ID to X100 (MISSING).
> execute.
> 
> But if I don't know the variable names, is there a way to specify all
> columns?  The PSPP manual suggests using DESCRIPTIVES which is clever
> but that won't create a column in the dataset (will it?).

I think that you just want:
    COUNT n=ALL(SYSMIS).