https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740603#M231387 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data work.all; merge apple.emp_name (in = emp_n) apple.emp_dept (in = emp_d); by empid; file print; put NOT emp_d=; run;</CODE></PRE> <P>I code like above, but it doesn't work , the result is the logical value of the temporary emp_d ,not the 'not emp_d' , how should I do ?</P> Tue, 11 May 2021 20:09:41 GMT tianerhu 2021-05-11T20:09:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740603#M231387 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data work.all; merge apple.emp_name (in = emp_n) apple.emp_dept (in = emp_d); by empid; file print; put NOT emp_d=; run;</CODE></PRE> <P>I code like above, but it doesn't work , the result is the logical value of the temporary emp_d ,not the 'not emp_d' , how should I do ?</P> Tue, 11 May 2021 20:09:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740603#M231387 tianerhu 2021-05-11T20:09:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740609#M231390 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data work.all; merge apple.emp_name (in = emp_n) apple.emp_dept (in = emp_d); by empid; file print; not_emp_d=(not emp_d); put NOT_emp_d=; run;</CODE></PRE> Tue, 11 May 2021 20:33:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740609#M231390 PaigeMiller 2021-05-11T20:33:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740614#M231394 <P>Thank you for your help.</P> Tue, 11 May 2021 20:56:50 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740614#M231394 tianerhu 2021-05-11T20:56:50Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740618#M231396 <P>the "not emp_d " is a expression ,not a variable , here we need a variable , so have the expression ---not emp_d assigned to a variable , then the code works . Thanks again.</P> Tue, 11 May 2021 21:10:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-list-the-temporary-variable-negative-logical-value/m-p/740618#M231396 tianerhu 2021-05-11T21:10:03Z