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Guillo
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I am trying to setup the PROMPT and SET commands to determine if a record is active based on an existing or missing date field. The prompts look like this:

-PROMPT &ACTIVE.(YES,NO).

-SET &ACTIVE = IF &ACTIVE = 'YES' THEN 'IS MISSING' ELSE 'IS NOT MISSING';

The Where is:

WHERE (END_DATE '&ACTIVE')

I am trying to get the WHERE statement to be conditional based on the prompt.
 
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FrankDutch
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try

IF &ACTIVE EQ .... in stead of "="

Frank




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Guillo
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I made the correction but the results are the same. The error reads:

(FOC261) EXPRESSION IS INCOMPLETE BECAUSE AN OPERATION IS MISSING
(FOC258) FIELDNAME OR COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENT NOT RECOGNIZED: ON

The line the errors point to are the WHERE statement. If I enter a normal WHERE statement the program runs fine. Is there another way to do conditional branching in the WHERE statement?
 
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Francis Mariani
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What does the WHERE statement look like after variable substitution?

Have you SET &ECHO to ALL to look at the code?


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Tom Flynn
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-PROMPT &ACTIVE.(YES,NO).

-SET &ACTIVE = IF &ACTIVE = 'YES' THEN 'IS MISSING' ELSE 'IS NOT MISSING';


Guillo, your PROMPT is incorrect:

-PROMPT &ACTIVE.(<YES,1>,<NO,2>).

then:

-SET &ACTIVE = IF &ACTIVE EQ '1' THEN 'IS MISSING' ELSE 'IS NOT MISSING';

then

WHERE END_DATE '&ACTIVE';

WHERE statements should always end with a semi-colon.

You may want to use 2 & variables, ACTIVE1 for the PROMPT, &ACTIVE2, for the SET, just for clarity...

Tom

Edit: Dang Graemlins...


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Alan B
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-PROMPT &ACTIVE.(YES,NO).

-SET &ACTIVE = IF &ACTIVE EQ 'YES' THEN 'IS MISSING' ELSE 'IS NOT MISSING';
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WHERE (END_DATE &ACTIVE)

Just remove the single quotes from around &ACTIVE in the where, they surround the operator as well.

Prompt is fine like that, change the = as Frank said to EQ.


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Guillo
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Thanks everyone for your help. Here's the results of the last 3 approaches.

Frances:
I could not figure out how to use the SET &ECHO command. Perhaps you could provide an example.

Tom:
This approach did not work when using the single quotes on '&ACTIVE'

Alan:
by suggesting to remove the single quotes this made Tom's approach work and my original (YES,NO) method work also. This was the key to the problem. I tried different SET options and they all worked.


Thank you all for your help.
 
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FrankDutch
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-SET &ECHO=ALL;




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