topic Re: Error in IF OR in Macro (%IF %OR %THEN %DO) in SAS Programming

Error in IF OR in Macro (%IF %OR %THEN %DO)

hhchenfx — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:35:14 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I got this line wrong but not sure why.

Can you help me?

Thank you.

HHCFX

		%if %sysfunc(MOD(&X,6))=0 %or &X=&outer1_nobs %then %do;

WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro OR not resolved.

Re: Error in IF OR in Macro (%IF %OR %THEN %DO)

novinosrin — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:39:27 GMT

it is just or and not %or like

		%if %sysfunc(MOD(&X,6))=0 or &X=&outer1_nobs %then %do;

Re: Error in IF OR in Macro (%IF %OR %THEN %DO)

hhchenfx — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:40:32 GMT

Oh, thank you.

Re: Error in IF OR in Macro (%IF %OR %THEN %DO)

novinosrin — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:42:35 GMT

Basically macro language still uses the same operators as does the sas language. However the statements, functions do have a prefix % to trigger the macro processor before the processed statements are sent to the compiler for execution.