topic Re: What does the expression mean in the following code? in SAS Programming

What does the expression mean in the following code?

MarkWik — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:18:53 GMT

What does the expression mean in the following code:

alea=a-1;

do while(alea<a | alea>b);/*this one?*/

alea = rannor(-1)*s+mean ;

end;

Re: What does the expression mean in the following code?

LinusH — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:20:33 GMT

SAS(R) 9.4 Language Reference: Concepts, Fourth Edition

Since you and many other find those abstract operators hard to under understand, I discourage the use of these.

Re: What does the expression mean in the following code?

ballardw — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:16:08 GMT

But it is so much fun to write obscure code Linus! Actually I agree and normally use OR, AND and NOT as appropriate. The extra special fun part with the | operator is you might have meant || or vice versa.