How to stop the nested loop but carry on with the main loop till certain condition met.

[Sami1234]

Dear All,

Would you please help me to achieve something as below?

list1 contains a list of continuous and categorical variables altogether & sublist contains only continuous variables. 

If the sublist contains more then 2 variables then 'else do' step runs twice or more.

Would it be possible to put a stop or condition on the 'J'  loop that it should only run once for list1 variables?

%do i = 1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&list1));

%do j = 1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&sublist));

%let main&i. = %scan(&list1,&i,%str( ));

%let sub&j. = %scan(&sublist,&j,%str( ));

%if &&main&. = &&sub&j. %then %do;

/*Some steps */

%end;

%else %do;

/**other steps**/

%end;

%end;

%end;

Thank you!

[Sami1234]

Actually, it's sorted now by removing the second nested loop. and only comparing the variable list in sublist with the first list.

if yes then first step otherwise the other step.