topic Re: warning error-WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol AND was misspelled as AND . in SAS Programming

warning error-WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol AND was misspelled as AND .

Ronein — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:30:18 GMT

Hello

I have a big problem.

I am running a simple code and I get a warning.

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WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol AND was misspelled as AND .

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WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol IF was misspelled as IF .

What is that please???

what is wrong in my code please?

Data bbb;
set aaa;
IF  x1>= 6000
AND  x1<7000
AND x2>=15000
AND x3 in (2,3,4,5,6)
AND  x4>=5000
then Factor=2;
else Factor=1;
Run;

Re: warning error-WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol AND was misspelled as AND .

PaigeMiller — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:58:31 GMT

It is always helpful, as we have asked you many times, to post the log in the box that appears after you click on the </> icon. We want the whole log, the code, warnings, notes and errors, everything.

Re: warning error-WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol AND was misspelled as AND .

PaigeMiller — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:59:03 GMT

Also please note:

in the portion of the log you do provide, it says "...was misspelled as AND ." There is a space after AND and before the period, as if you have placed a non-printing character into your code. How does this happen? Well, one way is if your code was pasted into SAS from a word-processor or from PowerPoint or from a PDF file. Do not do this if at all possible! There are probably other ways that this can happen.

Re: warning error-WARNING 1-322: Assuming the symbol AND was misspelled as AND .

ballardw — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:44:46 GMT

Another minor thing: SAS will accept comparisons such as

IF  6000 <= x1 <7000

which can make code much easier to follow, not to mention that some folks have a hard time getting "AND" and "OR" requirements in the correct places in complex conditions.