title: How can I loop through variables in SPSS? I want to avoid code duplication
body: <p>Is there a "native" SPSS way to loop through some variable names?  All I want to do is take a list of variables (that I define) and run the same procedure for them:</p>
  
  <p><strong>pseudo-code</strong> - not really a good example, but gets the point across...</p>
  
  <pre><code>for i in varlist['a','b','c']
  do
    FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=varlist[i] / ORDER=ANALYSIS.
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've noticed that people seem to just use R or Python SPSS plugins to achieve this basic array functionality, but I don't know how soon I can get those configured (if ever) on my installation of SPSS.</p>
  
  <p>SPSS has to have some native way to do this...right?</p>