Dear
I am trying to find a function that i can be used in the second 'if' statement. Please suggest.Thank you
in the second if statement, i am trying to find if all three variables missing or all three variables ='UNKNOWN' then set the 'd' variable missing.
my code;
data two;
set one;
if a="NEGATIVE" and b="NEGATIVE" and c="NEGATIVE" then=d='yes';
if cmiss(a,b,c) =3 or (a='UNKNOWN' and b='UNKNOWN' and c='UNKNOWN' ) then d='missing';
else d='no';
data one; input a $1-8 b $10-17 c $19-26; datalines; NEGATIVE NEGATIVE NEGATIVE UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN NEGATIVE ;
@knveraraju91 wrote:
Dear
I am trying to find a function that i can be used in the second 'if' statement. Please suggest.Thank you
in the second if statement, i am trying to find if all three variables missing or all three variables ='UNKNOWN' then set the 'd' variable missing.
It's not clear to me what the question is. You haven't actually asked a question.
I suspect that what you mean to do is :
data two;
set one;
if a="NEGATIVE" and b="NEGATIVE" and c="NEGATIVE" then d='yes';
else if cmiss(a,b,c) =3 or (a='UNKNOWN' and b='UNKNOWN' and c='UNKNOWN' ) then d='missing';
else d='no';
run;
I'm not sure you meant to re-use the variable name D all the time. But here is an approach you can use.
if a=b=c then do;
if a in (' ', 'NEGATIVE') then d='yes';
else d='no';
end;
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