On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:49:33PM +1100, Stuart McKenzie wrote:
> I have a block of code
>
> COMPUTE PulseCheck = INDEX(UPCASE(@JobName),"PULSE") > 0.
>
> DO IF (PulseCheck < 1).
> Recode CONT (Convert) into CONT1.
> *do other stuff
> END IF.
>
> If I include the line
> LIST PulseCheck
> I see that PulseCheck is being calculated correctly so that line appears
> to be correct, however, the DO IF block of code currently executes
> regardless of the value of PulseCheck. This script is used to run across 2
> data files, one of which has the CONT variable and the other doesn't, so I
> need to skip over this block when the CONT variable does not exist. Am I
> missing something stupidly obvious here? The less preferred solution is to
> use 2 scripts, but that has other implications which I would prefer not to
> have to deal with.
I finally took a look at this. Sorry about the long delay.
I can't reproduce the problem here. When I run the following, for
example:
DATA LIST LIST NOTABLE/input.
BEGIN DATA.
1
2
3
4
5
END DATA.
DO IF input < 3.
RECODE input (1=2)(ELSE=COPY) INTO output.
END IF.
LIST.
I see the expected output:
Data List
input output
-----------------
1.00 2.00
2.00 2.00
3.00 .
4.00 .
5.00 .
which shows that indeed the RECODE isn't doing anything for input values
less than 3.
If you can provide a complete example of syntax that doesn't behave as
you expect, I'll figure out the problem.
Thanks,
Ben.
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