Index of Do loop not recognized in IF statement

[JMES]

Hello,

I have been trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, but can't, so here I am posting the problem hoping someone can provide me some solution.

The Problem:

I have a IF statement within Do loop within DATA step. The IF statement evaluates by comparing Do loop index with a macro variable. Somehow the two values in comparison are not properly evaluated and thus, the codes always return ELSE values.

%macro TEMP();

%do i = 1 %to &Sample.;
    %do j = 1 %to &DD.;

         /*some codes*/    

        %let dsid = %sysfunc(open(TEMP_0));
        %let CNT_0 = %sysfunc(attrn(&dsid,NOBS));
        %let CC = %sysfunc(close(&dsid));

        %let dsid = %sysfunc(open(TEMP_00));
        %let CNT_00 = %sysfunc(attrn(&dsid,NOBS));
        %let CC = %sysfunc(close(&dsid));


       /*some codes*/

       data TEMP_0_; set TEMP_0_;
          data TEMP_0_; set TEMP_0_;
               do k = 1 to &CNT_0.;
                  if k <= &CNT_00. then Rand = 1;    /*k and CNT_oo comparison is not properly evaluated*/
                  else Rand = 0;                     /* thus Rand is always 0*/
               end;
          drop k;
          run;

/*some codes*/

%mend TEMP;

[FreelanceReinh]

Hello @JMES,

Your code is syntactically correct (assuming that the %ENDs for the two %DO loops are hidden in "some codes").

I cannot replicate your issue. When I tested it with appropriate datasets TEMP_0 and TEMP_00, variable RAND was set to 1.

The duplicate line "data TEMP_0_; set TEMP_0_;" is redundant. The second data step could be simplified as follows:

data TEMP_0_;
set TEMP_0_;
Rand=ifn(&CNT_0, &CNT_0 <= &CNT_00, .);
run;

Could you please provide small sample datasets (in the form of a data step) which demonstrate the issue?

[Astounding]

I suppose this might happen if your second data set contains 0 observations.  But you can make it easy to diagnose.  Just add this before you run:

options symbolgen;

Then you will be able to see the values you are working with for your macro variables.

[JMES]

Thanks all.

I realized that the codes that I wrote are not doing what I wanted it to do.

I chaged the codes and working fine now.