recoding

Here’s my problem: I have a survey with 21 questions. I am measuring alignment with 5 principles. The questions are grouped in my dissertation to fall under the 5 principles. Is there a way to recode so that I get an output that lists which of the questions for each of the 250 responders are aligned with each of the principles? Almost all of the questions have multiple questions imbedded. So instead of having 21 questions there are really 66 questions. I have labeled them for instance 4a, 4b, 4c, etc

Principle 1: questions 6, 15, 16, 17
principle 2: questions 4, 13
Principle 3: questions 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
Principle 4: 2, 11, 12, 18, 19
Principle 5 questions 1, 13, 14, 20, 21.

I have been playing around with Transform/compute variable but it is not making sense to me yet. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks for your assistance.

Maureen