problem using select when

[rishabhmehra13]

Can you check upon this.

libname l '/folders/myfolders';
data carselect;
set l.permanent;

select(Manufacturer);
LENGTH country $200;
when("Honda","Lexus","Mitsubis","Infiniti") country = "Japan";
when("Hyundai") country=""SouthKorea";
when("BMW","Audi"," Mercedes") country = "germany";
when("Jaguar") country = "India";

when("Acura","Buick","Cadillac","Chevrole","Chrysler","Dodge","Ford","Jeep","Lincoln") country = "USA";

otherwise country = "other";
end;

run;

log

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

55

56 libname l '/folders/myfolders';

NOTE: Libref L was successfully assigned as follows:

Engine: V9

Physical Name: /folders/myfolders

57 data carselect;

58 set l.permanent;

59

60 select(Manufacturer);

61 LENGTH country $200;

62 when("Honda","Lexus","Mitsubis","Infiniti") country = "Japan";

63 when("Hyundai") country=""SouthKorea";

__

49

__________

388

76

64 when("BMW","Audi","Mercedes") country = "germany";

___ ______________ ________

49 49 49

65 when("Jaguar") country = "India";

______________ ________

49 49

NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

66

67 when("Acura","Buick","Cadillac","Chevrole","Chrysler","Dodge","Ford","Jeep","Lincoln") country = "USA";

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ______________

_______________________

49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49

NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

68

69

70

71 otherwise country = "other";

72 end;

73

74 run;

75

76

77 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

78 ODS HTML CLOSE;

79 &GRAPHTERM; ;*';*";*/;RUN;

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

WARNING: The data set WORK.CARSELECT may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 16 variables.

WARNING: Data set WORK.CARSELECT was not replaced because this step was stopped.

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.06 seconds

cpu time 0.07 seconds

79 ! QUIT;

80 QUIT;RUN;

81 ODS HTML5 (ID=WEB) CLOSE;

82

83 ODS RTF (ID=WEB) CLOSE;

84 ODS PDF (ID=WEB) CLOSE;

NOTE: ODS PDF(WEB) printed no output.

(This sometimes results from failing to place a RUN statement before the ODS PDF(WEB) CLOSE statement.)

85 FILENAME _GSFNAME;

NOTE: Fileref _GSFNAME has been deassigned.

86 DATA _NULL_;

87 RUN;

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.01 seconds

cpu time 0.01 seconds

88 OPTIONS NOTES STIMER SOURCE SYNTAXCHECK;

89

[mohamed_zaki]

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@rishabhmehra13 wrote:

....
when("Hyundai") country=""SouthKorea";

....

[Astounding]

Yes, removing the extra quote will solve one of the problems.  But your syntax for SELECT statements is not valid.  Here is an abbreviated version of what you will need to change:

length country $200;

select;
when(Manufacturer in ("Honda","Lexus","Mitsubis","Infiniti")) country = "Japan";
when(Manufacturer in ("Hyundai")) country=""SouthKorea";
when(Manufacturer in ("BMW","Audi"," Mercedes")) country = "germany";

...

otherwise country = "other";
end;