I am calculating a fraction based on the payments made in four years and I wish to put a cap on my fraction such that it can only be between -1 and 1. Subsequently I'd like to make the following fractions 0 if the cap is maxxed out - an example would be: data want; input payment1 payment2 payment3 payment4 fraction1 fraction2 fraction3; datalines; 100 25 25 25 0.25 0.25 0.25 150 50 50 50 0.33 0.33 0.33 50 10 10 10 0.2 0.2 0.2 10 50 60 70 1 0 0 ; run; I've been looking at the ceiling function with the following code data want2; set want; array fraction(3) fraction1 - fraction3; array payment(4) payment1 - payment4; do i = 2 to 4; fraction(i-1) = payment(i)/payment(1); end; run; data want3; set want2; array fraction(3) fraction1 - fraction3; array fract(3) fract1-fract3; do i = 1 to 3; fract = ceil (fraction,1); end; drop i; run; but I am getting this error ERROR 72-185: The CEIL function call has too many arguments. So in all i'm looking for a way to calculate the fraction of the payments and then make a ceiling at one, then once the ceiling is hit, the subsequent fractions must be zero (which could be done I suppose by just doing an IF-THEN) ... View more