begin program. 
import spss, spssaux 
vardict = spssaux.VariableDict(variableType="string") 
verylong = [v.VariableName for v in vardict if v.VariableType > 500] 
if verylong: 
    spss.Submit("delete variables " + " ".join(verylong)) 
end program. 
 Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
 Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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 phone: 720-342-5621