topic Else-Do vs Else in SAS Programming

Else-Do vs Else

apple — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:31:02 GMT

Using SAS 7.1, what is the difference between "Else" and "Else Do"

Thank you

Re: Else-Do vs Else

SASKiwi — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 06:23:19 GMT

You use ELSE for a single statement, ELSE DO with an END statement for multiple statements.

Re: Else-Do vs Else

RW9 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:22:13 GMT

It is called a block. If you have one statement after the conditonal you just put the one statement. If you have multiple statements then they become a block, defined by do end. See the documentation:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000201951.htm