Date:         Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:10:10 +0000
Reply-To:     karma <dorjetarap@GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
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From:         karma <dorjetarap@GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: urgent
Comments: To: Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@t-online.de>
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Very nice Gerhard, and as macro variables are essentially text, this
works about as well as I would expect %in to work if it existed.

Thanks

2009/3/4 Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@t-online.de>:
> I sometimes also saw the %index function to do something like the IN
> operator:
>
> %macro test;
>  %do i=1 %to 5;
>    %if %index(*1*2*3*,&i) %then %do;
>   %put ok for I=&i;
>    %end;
>    %else %do;
>      %put &i is not in 1 2 3;
>    %end;
>  %end;
> %mend;
> %test;
>
> Gerhard
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:51:53 +0000, karma <dorjetarap@GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>You have a bit of a mixture of data step code and macro code here. The
>>macro language doesn't support the in function as of yet, so you can
>>either code the options explicitly in the macro code, or bring it into
>>the datastep.
>>
>>%macro test ;
>>   %let i=1 ;
>>   %if &i eq 1 or &i eq 2 or &i eq 3 %then
>>      %let inds=eff_auc ;
>>   %else %if &i eq 3 or &i eq 4 or &i eq 5 %then
>>      %let inds=pk ;
>>   %put &inds ;
>>%mend;
>>%test ;
>>
>>%let i=4 ;
>>data _null_ ;
>>  if &i in (1 2 3) then call symputx('inds','eff_auc') ;
>>  else if &i in (3 4 5) then call symputx('inds','pk') ;
>>  run ;
>>%put &inds ;
>>
>>2009/3/4 Shaik Hymad <hymadsk@gmail.com>:
>>> Please correct the below statement :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  if &i in (1 2 6) then %let inds=eff_auc;
>>>  %else %if &i in (3 4 5) %then %let inds=pk;
>>>
>