topic nested if statement in SAS not working as expected in SAS Programming

nested if statement in SAS not working as expected

JJP1 — Fri, 29 May 2020 18:57:31 GMT

Hi All even thogh memid is having name as sasadministartors iam getting incorrect value as vv instead of SAS Administrators if i use nested if not=

syntax,please help

data t;
	set work.groupmempersons_info(where=(memid='xxxxxxxxx'));
	length desc $255;
	call missing (desc);
	if memName = "sasadm" or memname = "sasevs" or memname = "sastrust" then put "Account is sasadm, sasevs or sastrust, skipping.";
else 
if Name= :'SASAdministrators' or Name= :'DI Developers'  then desc='SAS Administrator';
if Name not= :'XXX' and Name not=:'YYY' then desc='vv';
;
		rc=metadata_setattr("omsobj:person\"||memid,"Desc",desc);

                        
    put rc=;
	run;

Re: nested if statement in SAS not working as expected

ballardw — Fri, 29 May 2020 19:04:21 GMT

This statement:

if Name not= :'XXX' and Name not=:'YYY' then desc='vv';

Is always executed regardless of what happened with the earlier if.

I think you want:

data t; set work.groupmempersons_info(where=(memid='xxxxxxxxx')); length desc $255; call missing (desc); if memName = "sasadm" or memname = "sasevs" or memname = "sastrust" then put "Account is sasadm, sasevs or sastrust, skipping."; else /* <= this else only effects the next statement*/ if Name= :'SASAdministrators' or Name= :'DI Developers' then desc='SAS Administrator'; ELSE if Name not= :'XXX' and Name not=:'YYY' then desc='vv'; ; rc=metadata_setattr("omsobj:person\"||memid,"Desc",desc); put rc=; run;