topic Re: If then do syntax error in SAS Studio

If then do syntax error

murad130 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:31:45 GMT

I am very new to SAS. Below is the code I used for an if then do statement, but I am getting a syntax error message for the "end;" statement:

DATA Temp_Data;

X2 = X1;

X3 =0

if missing(X2) then do;

X2 = 5;

X3 = 1;

end;

run;

The error message states:

"ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ..........."

What am I doing wrong?

Please advise. Thanks.

Re: If then do syntax error

Reeza — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:37:20 GMT

You're missing a semicolon on the previous line.

Not sure what version of SAS you have but I get that error message directly:

126  DATA Temp_Data;
127  X2 = X1;
128  X3 =0
129   if missing(X2) then do;
      --
      79
ERROR 79-322: Expecting a ;.

130      X2 = 5;
131      X3 = 1;
132  end;
133  run;

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of
      errors.
WARNING: The data set WORK.TEMP_DATA may be incomplete.  When
         this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 3
         variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.13 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds

Re: If then do syntax error

murad130 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:38:31 GMT

Thank you Reeza,

This was very helpful!