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BSBAL18
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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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AS Version: 8201
Gen: 10202016
Windows, All Outputs
 
Posts: 49 | Location: St. Louis | Registered: December 13, 2016Report This Post
MartinY
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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).


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
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Doug
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The missing / operative keyword is "COMPUTE" and COMPUTEs require a semi-colon termination not to mention a dash prefix for multiple lines.
 
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