topic Re: if else in SAS Programming

if else

Havi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:08:37 GMT

Hi All

I want to calculate amounts for a large number of codes eg:

if code in ('BBB','PPP') then amount = 1;

but I want it to exclude the codes PPPBB and PPPCC as that code will be calculated separately eg:

if code in ('PPPBB','PPPCC') then amount = 2;

Sorry can't get my head around this.

Thank you

Re: if else

Amir — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:43:48 GMT

Hi,

Looks like you have everything you need. Try:

data want;

input code $;

if code in ('BBB','PPP') then

amount = 1;

else

if code in ('PPPBB','PPPCC') then

amount = 2;

datalines;

PPPBB

PPP

PPPCC

BBB

;

Regards,

Amir.

Message was edited by: Amir Malik - formatting

Re: if else

Havi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:18:54 GMT

Hi Amir

The 1st in statement will select all codes that have PPP in them including PPPBB which I do not want.

Re: if else

Amir — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:25:07 GMT

Hi,

Looking at the data set produced, I see the following:

Obs code amount

1 PPPBB 2

2 PPP 1

3 PPPCC 2

4 BBB 1

Did you want something different? If yes, then please give sample input data and the output data you want to see.

Regards,

Amir.

Re: if else

Havi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:34:14 GMT

Thanks Amir 🙂

Re: if else

Amir — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:52:48 GMT

Hi,

No problem. As you might have realised, the in operator, as used in the code, will check if the variable is equal to any one of the values in the parentheses, not contained in one of the values.

Hope that's clear.

Regards,

Amir.