topic Re: IF-ELSE Statement in Conjunction with Wildcard Strings in SAS Programming

IF-ELSE Statement in Conjunction with Wildcard Strings

Vicente95 — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:37:03 GMT

Hello Team,

I have a used cars dataset where there are hundreds of thousands of missing values. The dataset looks something like this (I filtered the manufacturer to only show toyota for brevity's sake)

region

price

year

manufacturer

model

condition

cylinders

fuel

odometer

title_status

transmission

drive

size

type

paint_color

state

posting_date

ventura county

$ 7,800

2007

toyota

gas

10000000

clean

automatic

2021-04-30T11:48:47-0700

south florida

$ 14,498

2007

toyota

fj cruiser 4x4

diesel

7777777

clean

automatic

2021-05-01T07:38:28-0400

flagstaff / sedona

$ 3,900

1998

toyota

4-runner sr5

good

6 cylinders

gas

349000

clean

automatic

rwd

mid-size

SUV

green

2021-04-05T09:56:10-0700

phoenix

$ 3,500

1998

toyota

4runner

good

6 cylinders

gas

347000

clean

automatic

rwd

SUV

silver

2021-05-03T11:27:32-0700

colorado springs

$ 6,500

1998

toyota

good

8 cylinders

gas

345000

clean

automatic

4wd

full-size

SUV

grey

2021-04-28T10:05:44-0600

seattle-tacoma

$ 1,150

2009

toyota

prius

fair

hybrid

345000

clean

automatic

hatchback

blue

2021-05-03T10:06:08-0700

knoxville

$ 2,000

1998

toyota

camry ce

good

4 cylinders

gas

344200

clean

automatic

sedan

2021-05-03T22:07:49-0400

knoxville

$ 2,000

1998

toyota

camry ce

good

4 cylinders

gas

344200

clean

automatic

sedan

2021-04-30T21:54:27-0400

knoxville

$ 2,000

1998

toyota

camry ce

good

4 cylinders

gas

344200

clean

automatic

sedan

2021-04-26T13:20:34-0400

knoxville

$ 2,200

1998

toyota

camry ce

good

4 cylinders

gas

344200

clean

automatic

sedan

2021-04-23T14:43:32-0400

SF bay area

$ 6,900

2001

toyota

4runner

6 cylinders

gas

342200

clean

automatic

2021-05-03T18:18:25-0700

champaign urbana

$ 1,000

1997

toyota

camry

fair

4 cylinders

gas

342000

clean

automatic

fwd

full-size

sedan

red

2021-04-08T16:24:29-0500

kansas city, MO

$ 2,996

2000

toyota

tundra 2wd truck

excellent

6 cylinders

gas

342000

clean

automatic

rwd

pickup

white

2021-04-26T16:13:17-0500

fort collins / north CO

$ 2,000

1999

toyota

4runner

fair

gas

340500

clean

automatic

4wd

SUV

white

2021-04-07T10:55:29-0600

orange county

$ 8,600

2003

toyota

tundra

8 cylinders

gas

340000

clean

automatic

2021-04-28T15:54:43-0700

I need to keep the existing rows that have no missing values intact and untouched, especially the model and manufacturer columns while replacing all the missing values for the engine using the make/model column. Note, all values/observations are already lower-case so there is no need to perform any sort of upper and lower casing.

My goal is to use an if-else statement in conjunction with a wildcard and list to fill in the missing values in the cylinders column using the make/model columns. The idea is to fill in missing engine cylinder values based on the car model. There are some missing values for the car model which I predict will cause problems.

Here is a sample logic that I want to perform for Toyota. If the SAS code works for Toyota, I can apply this to other car makers such as Honda, BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, etc. I can also use the same logic to work with the transmission, drive train, size, and type columns.

4 cylinders

If the model starts with (is in or like) "camry", "corolla", "rav4", "prius", "yaris", "matrix", "echo", "previa"; and
The cylinders is missing/blank; then
Cylinders equal "4 cylinders"

6 cylinders

Else if the model starts with "avalon", "highlander", "4runner", "sienna", "tacoma", "highlander", "fj", "venza", "cruiser"; and
The cylinders is missing/blank; then
Cylinders equal "6 cylinders"

8 cylinders

Else if the model starts with "tundra", "sequoia"; and
The cylinders is missing/blank; then
Cylinders equal "8 cylinders"

I imagine this if-else statement will be very long since there are 38 car makers/manufacturers in the dataset. Any guidance is appreciated.

Re: IF-ELSE Statement in Conjunction with Wildcard Strings

Astounding — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:08:36 GMT

OK, here's one piece of the puzzle to get you started. It identifies cases where there are no missing values.

data want;
   set have;
   nmiss(of _numeric_) = 0 and cmiss(of _character_) = 0 then return;
   * add your IF THEN statements here;
run;

Because of the RETURN statement, any observations with no missing values will bypass any IF THEN statements.

Re: IF-ELSE Statement in Conjunction with Wildcard Strings

Vicente95 — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 23:05:09 GMT

Thank you. Is there an optimal way where I can shorten the following SAS code? The idea is to fill in the missing make values using the description column by matching the automaker keyword all while keeping the non-missing model values intact.

Based on the results, it seems to work.

DATA WORK.usedcars6;
	SET WORK.usedcars5;
IF make='' AND FIND(description,'ford') THEN make='ford';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'chevy') or FIND(description,'chevrolet') THEN make='chevrolet';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'toyota') THEN make='toyota';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'honda') THEN make='honda';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'nissan') THEN make='nissan';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'jeep') THEN make='jeep';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'ram') THEN make='ram';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'gmc') THEN make='gmc';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'bmw') THEN make='bmw';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'dodge') THEN make='dodge';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'mercedes-benz') OR FIND(description,'mercedes') OR FIND(description,'mercedes benz') OR FIND(description,'benz') THEN make='mercedes-benz';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'hyundai') THEN make='hyundai';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'subaru') THEN make='subaru';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'lexus') THEN make='lexus';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'kia') THEN make='kia';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'audi') THEN make='audi';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'cadillac') THEN make='cadillac';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'acura') THEN make='acura';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'chrysler') THEN make='chrysler';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'mazda') THEN make='mazda';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'buick') THEN make='buick';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'infiniti') THEN make='infiniti';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'lincoln') THEN make='lincoln';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'volvo') THEN make='volvo';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'mitsubishi') THEN make='mitsubishi';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'mini') THEN make='mini';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'jaguar') THEN make='jaguar';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'pontiac') THEN make='pontiac';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'porsche') THEN make='porsche';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'saturn') THEN make='saturn';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'mercury') THEN make='mercury';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'alfa-romeo') OR FIND(description,'alfa romeo') THEN make='alfa-romeo';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'tesla') THEN make='tesla';
ELSE IF make='' AND FIND(description,'fiat') THEN make='fiat';
RUN;

Re: IF-ELSE Statement in Conjunction with Wildcard Strings

ChrisNZ — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 02:52:19 GMT

Mind that fuel could change the nb of cylinders.

I'd do this using a SQL left join. Maybe something like:

select base.MAKE

, base MODEL

, coalesce(base.CYLINDERS,cyl.CYLINDERS) as CYLINDER

from TABLE base

left join

(select unique MAKE, MODEL, CYLINDER where CYLINDERS ne ' ') cyl

after ensuring the right table only provides one value per make/model

Re: IF-ELSE Statement in Conjunction with Wildcard Strings

Astounding — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 10:22:30 GMT

Slightly shorter, and easier to read:

if missing (make) then do;
if find(description,......
(Many times)
end;