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Luke Forster
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Hi all,

I am having an issue with the Dialogue Manager that I can't figure out.

As part of the report my users are entering a 1 or 0 to determine if specific records are included (1) or excluded (0) into a variable called &CRITERIA. I want to have both the value as a number and name and to accomplish this I have created another variable called &CRIT_NAME with the following set command.

-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF '&CRITERIA' EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include';

For some reason no matter what I enter in criteria it is giving me Include in the &CRIT_NAME variable.

I am sure I am making some simple mistake and just cant see it but I would really appreciate your guys help.

Thanks,

-Luke

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RSquared
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Try changing
-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF '&CRITERIA' EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include'

to

-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF &CRITERIA EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include'


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Luke Forster
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Originally posted by RSquared:
Try changing
-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF '&CRITERIA' EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include'

to

-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF &CRITERIA EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include'


Thanks RSquared, that solved my issue.


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Tony A
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The correct syntax is to include GOTO, so you should look at correcting the syntax incase code tightening causes you issues down the line ....

I'm sure that R² mistyped when missing the terminating semi-colon Wink

T

Edited to say that on rereading the post I realise that I had completely misread it so ignore my comment regarding GOTO Roll Eyes

Too busy is my excuse Music

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Danny-SRL
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Luke,
You can also code:
-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF '&CRITERIA.EVAL' EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include';

and yes, do not forget the semi-colon!
But don't fret, it will happen to you often...


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Wep5622
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You mean:
-SET &CRIT_NAME = IF '&CRITERIA.EVIL' EQ 0 THEN 'Exclude' ELSE 'Include';


Don't use .EVAL where it's unnecessary, it's a dangerous operation and it requires the code to be parsed twice.

For example, what happens when:
-SET &CRITERIA = '''; DEL *.*';


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