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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct
instead of IF statements?

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / juan

SELECT statement can do logical test. A SELECT statement
provides an alternative to a series of IF and ELSE IF
statements. It is usually more efficient than IF-THEN/ELSE,
especially if you are recoding a variable into a large
number of categories.

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / venkatesh.layam

when ever we wre do the task on puarticular variable select
works efficiently than if then else
And it will check immideatly and occupies less space.
it will give good shape out for data.

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / gangadhar

IF STATEMENT IS MAINLY USED FOR SUBSETTING OF DATA.IN THE
SAME WAY SUBSETTING IN SQL SELECT STATEMENT IS USED.

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / prakask

i think select statements are used when we are using 1
condition to compare with several conditions

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / sonu

The SELECT statement begins a SELECT group. SELECT groups contain WHEN statements that identify SAS statements that are executed when a particular condition is true. Use at least one WHEN statement in a SELECT group. An optional OTHERWISE statement specifies a statement to be executed if no WHEN condition is met. An END statement ends a SELECT group.
Null statements that are used in WHEN statements cause SAS to recognize a condition as true without taking further action. Null statements that are used in OTHERWISE statements prevent SAS from issuing an error message when all WHEN conditions are false.
Using Select-When improves processing efficiency and understandability in programs that needed to check a series of conditions for the same variable.
Use IF-THEN/ELSE statements for programs with few statements.
Using a subsetting IF statement without a THEN clause could be dangerous because it would process only those records that meet the condition specified in the IF clause.

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / rushi

When you have a long series of mutually exclusive conditions and the comparison is numeric, using a SELECT group is slightly more efficient than using IF-THEN or IF-THEN-ELSE statements because CPU time is reduced.

The syntax for SELECT WHEN is as follows :

SELECT (condition);
WHEN (1) x=x;
WHEN (2) x=x*2;
OTHERWISE x=x-1;
END;

Example :

SELECT (str);
WHEN ('Sun') wage=wage*1.5;
WHEN ('Sat') wage=wage*1.3;
OTHERWISE DO;
wage=wage+1;
bonus=0;
END;
END;

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / kumarrd

when ever we want check with more than condition we may use
if condition rather than select one

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