topic Re: What is wrong with this? in SAS Programming

What is wrong with this?

nidhi123 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:41:00 GMT

do i=1 to i<=14;
x=i;
call symput('j',x);
if
/*blablablabla*/
then Exp&j=Price;

i=i+1;
end;

I get the error message:
(for the Exp&j=Price statement I have used.)
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

Re: What is wrong with this?

nidhi123 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:41:36 GMT

Here is my question. Something wrong with this forum today??

do i=1 to i<=14;
x=i;
call symput('j',x);
if
/*blablablabla*/
then Exp&j=Price;

i=i+1;
end;

I get the error message:
(for the Exp&j=Price statement I have used.)
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

Re: What is wrong with this?

Tim_SAS — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:14:36 GMT

Probably you have < or > in your code. Here's how to post code in this forum.

Re: What is wrong with this?

nidhi123 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:32:32 GMT

THANKS TIM@SAS!

Here is my problem:
I get this error:

Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

for running this code:

DATA new;
set old;
do i=1 to i<=14;
x=i;
call symput('j',x);
if Post in ('010')
then Exp&j=Price;

i=i+1;
end;

run;

SAS dont like me setting Exp&j = Price

Re: What is wrong with this?

RickM — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:51:47 GMT

First, your do loop is not defined well for SAS. You can just write

[pre]
do i=1 to 14;
"Do stuff here"
end;
[/pre]

Another thing is that macro variables can't be used within the same data step that they are created.

Arrays would probably do what it looks like you are trying to do.

[pre]
data new;
set old;
array Exp(14);
do i=1 to 14;
if Post in ('010') then Exp(i)=Price;
end;
run;

[/pre]

But then you will just get 14 colums with the same value. Maybe you could try and explain what you want to do.