Date:         Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:34:10 -0700
Reply-To:     Richard Read Allen <peakstat@WISPERTEL.NET>
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From:         Richard Read Allen <peakstat@WISPERTEL.NET>
Subject:      Re: vname, vnamex?
Comments: To: Charles Patridge <charles_s_patridge@PRODIGY.NET>
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Charles,

  I did not overlook this, but rather was looking for a more elegant
solution than writing a bunch of if statements for all possible values of
x. The real values of x are much longer in length and the list of possible
values much larger than three.

Richard

At 02:22 PM 10/28/2003 -0500, Charles Patridge wrote:
>Richard,
>
>You might be trying too hard - try this -
>
>data test;
>    input x $ a b c;
>  if x = 'a' and a ge 5;
>
>    cards;
>a 8 3 4
>a 4 6 7
>b 3 3 2
>b 3 9 5
>c 2 2 9
>;;;;
>run;
>
>
>HTH,
>Charles Patridge