IF THEN ELSE Conditional Statements in SAS | IF THEN ELSE Excel VS SAS|Decisioning with IF THEN ELSE

[@ramyaeswar3387]

Hi ., can you pls let me know - How to check if the date is in correct format or not ? Using if else statement.

[@learnerea]

can you give an example, which could help to understand the problem statement better

[@An-Kyan]

thank you

[@learnerea]

You're welcome

[@TheYi1985]

Fantastic !

[@learnerea]

Thank you very much

[@somcana]

What if I want to create a new variable derived from others , for instance a rate variable.

[@learnerea]

try that using if else
e.g. if x > 500 then new_var = 'high'; else new_var = 'low'
let me know if you get any chalange

[@elokuuniu7976]

very smooth

[@learnerea]

Glad you liked it

[@beingfijian1855]

to undo the comment, i highlighted and again pressed the forward slash, but it did not uncomment. pls help.

[@learnerea]

if you struggle using the shortcuts, feel free to remove the comments slashes and starts manual that will be easy

[@9438021863]

Why for any analysis we have to creat a new dataset as something like 'testing'. Why can't we do it in the existing table or dataset.

[@learnerea]

That you can do apparently, however, as a practice when you are working on real data, usually we avoid to temper any original data and hence we create a copy of that