Creating Calculating Items in SAS VA 7.3

[GS10]

Hi,

I m trying to create a calculated fieldfor a report. I have to create an item with a range and I using If else boolean for this. Here, i have to get the output as numeric with combination of date and numeric. i m not able to create an item with date and range between numeric where as the ouput should be a nuemeric. Please suggest..

[Sam_SAS]

Hello,

Can you provide some more information about the calculated expression that you want to create?

Do you need to compare numerics and dates?

It wouldn't be as simple as something like this would it?

IF ( 'Date'n BetweenInclusive('7MAR2017'd, '28MAR2017'd) )
RETURN 'Profit'n
ELSE .

Thanks,

Sam

[GS10]

Yes..

IF ( 'Numeric'n BetweenInclusive('numeric', 'numeric') )
RETURN 'text string'n
ELSE .

[Sam_SAS]

Are you getting a message about argument types not matching?

In the VA expression syntax, . is a numeric missing value and '.' is a character missing value. If your RETURN parameter is character, then try,

IF ( 'Numeric'n BetweenInclusive('numeric', 'numeric') )
RETURN 'text string'n
ELSE '.'

[GS10]

Yes..

[GS10]

Can someone solve this  ??

[Sam_SAS]

Did you try putting quotes around the missing value for your ELSE statement?

[GS10]

Thanks! Yes, I tried it and its working. 

[Sam_SAS]

Great! Thanks for following up.