Date:         Thu, 4 May 2006 18:18:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
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From:         Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
Subject:      Re: assign single value to broken series of variables
Comments: To: Eash <easwara@GMAIL.COM>
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On 5/8/2006 1:40 AM Eash said the following:
> Hi All,
>
> based on a IF rule, Is it possible to assign a single value to a series
> of variables(broken)??
>
> for eg, I've variables CARD22,CARD34,CARD44,CARD55..etc(note that the
> variables are not continuous)
>
> and with the value of a variable X , i want to do the following!
>
> If X='BALANCE' Then do;
> CCARD22=-99;
> CCARD34=-99;
> CCARD44=-99;
> CCARD55=-99;
> ..
> ..
> ..
> End;

David Cassell must be out to lunch (a late lunch).  I was expecting him
to chime in with "You don't want to do that!"

So why do you want to do that?  This seems like a good use for SAS
missing values.  Assuming that the CCARD variables ordinarily contain
meaningful numeric values, it's not a good idea to throw in values from
a different domain.  Sooner or later someone will try to take a sum or
mean of those fields, and that's trouble.



> Of course, I have 50+ CCARD Variables and don't wanna do it with the
> help if  assignment statements. Even if we go for a MACRO'y solution, I
> need to pass the 22,34,44,55 as parameters!!! is there any short cut
> (which surely i'm not aware)..to shorten my code ?
>
> thanks
> Easwara
>