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Chris Shaffer
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I'm trying to conditionally set a variable based on the existence of another variable. Basically, here's what I'm wanting to do:

IF VarA != ''
set VarB = 'and some junk &VarA'
ELSE
set VarB = ''

I tried using this:

-SET &VARB = IF &VARA = ' ' THEN '' ELSE ' and some junk &VARA';

but that doesn't seem to work so well.

Thanks in advance.
 
Posts: 19 | Registered: October 24, 2006Report This Post
Darin Lee
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use EQ and NE instead of = and !=.
-SET &VARB = IF &VARA EQ ' ' THEN '' ELSE ' and some junk &VARA';


Regards,

Darin


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That did it! Thanks.
 
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