Why is this erroring with invalid expression when i insert a new compute field in the MAS file?

SUM.TOTAL_MISMATCHES / IF DIV_SHORT_NAME = 'CENTRAL'
THEN 308 ELSE IF DIV_SHORT_NAME = 'WEST' THEN 198
ELSE 110

"(FOC266) IF .. THEN .. ELSE .. SYNTAX ERROR"

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SUM.TOTAL_MISMATCHES / IF DIV_SHORT_NAME = 'CENTRAL' THEN 308 ELSE IF DIV_SHORT_NAME = 'WEST' THEN 198 ELSE 110

A "perfect" COMPUTE syntax may look as the following :

COMPUTE fieldname /format = IF DIV_SHORT_NAME EQ 'CENTRAL' THEN 308 ELSE IF DIV_SHORT_NAME EQ 'WEST' THEN 198 ELSE 110;

It looks like you have a weird syntax : SUM.TOTAL_MISMATCH / IF ... = ...
Difficult to know where is the compute field's name and what is the compute function itself.

Equal sign (=) may be recognized in WF, but I normally not use it in a IF THEN ELSE to avoid confusion between the assignation (=) and the equal test (EQ).

The missing / operative keyword is "COMPUTE" and COMPUTEs require a semi-colon termination not to mention a dash prefix for multiple lines.