I have a data set with the list of food items that kids ate during the day. For each category, for example, vegetables, there are words that are misspelled. I created a frequency for the variable vegetable and identified the misspelled words that I need to correct. I want to keep the correct reports as is. The way I introduce ELSE, my code only applies the last IF for lettuce and replaces cabbage with the original cabage. Thanks for your help.
data have;
length vagatables $ 20;
length fruits $ 20;
input vagetables $ fruits $ ;
datalines;
cabage orange
cabbage apple
carrot strwberry
lettuce apple
Letuce cherry
;
run;
proc print data=have; run;
data want;
set have;
if vagetables = "cabage" then vagetables_new="cabbage";
if vagetables = "Letuce" then vagetables_new="lettuce";
else vagetables_new=vagetables;
run;
proc print data=want; run;
| Obs | vagetables | fruits |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cabage | orange |
| 2 | cabbage | apple |
| 3 | carrot | strwberry |
| 4 | lettuce | apple |
| 5 | Letuce | cherry |
The dataset want
| Obs | vagetables | fruits | vagetables_new |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cabage | orange | cabage |
| 2 | cabbage | apple | cabbage |
| 3 | carrot | strawberry | carrot |
| 4 | lettuce | apple | lettuce |
| 5 | Letuce | cherry | lettuce |
You need to use else if
if vagetables = "cabage" then vagetables_new="cabbage";
else if vagetables = "Letuce" then vagetables_new="lettuce";
else vagetables_new=vagetables;The last else otherwise which change all values to old ones.
You need to use else if
if vagetables = "cabage" then vagetables_new="cabbage";
else if vagetables = "Letuce" then vagetables_new="lettuce";
else vagetables_new=vagetables;The last else otherwise which change all values to old ones.
Thank you, @Rydhm. It is fixed!
data want;
set have;
if vagetables = "cabage" then vagetables_new="cabbage";
if vagetables = "letuce" then vagetables_new="lettuce";
else if vagetables notin ("cabage","letuce") then vagetables_new=vagetables;
run;
proc print data=want; run;
| The SAS System |
| Obs | vagetables | fruits | vagetables_new |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cabage | orange | cabbage |
| 2 | cabbage | apple | cabbage |
| 3 | carrot | strwberry | carrot |
| 4 | lettuce | apple | lettuce |
| 5 | letuce | cherry | lettuce |
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