[gradsusr] if test in grads script going awol

[Jennifer Adams]

Bernd,
Get rid of the 'then' in your 'if' statement -- it is not part of the  
'if' clause syntax.
--Jennifer

On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Becker, Bernd wrote:

>
> dear all,
> what is wrong with this?
>
>
> ignore=(20101021)
>
> in=0
> while ( in < 1 )
>   in= in   +1
>
> * check current date against list of dates to be ignored:
>   dimfx       = subwrd(ignore, in)
>   say rc' 'valnum(dimfx)
>   dimfx       = math_format('%10.2f', dimfx  )
>   ifxdate     = math_format('%10.2f', fxdate )
>   skip=(ifxdate-dimfx)/1.
> * this is zero to trigger skip
>   say rc' 'dimfx' 'ifxdate' 'skip        ' 'valnum(skip)
>   if ( skip = int(0)      )    then
>       say 'skip 'dimfx                 ' 'fxdate
>   else
>       say 'not skip 'dimfx             ' 'fxdate
>
>
> for the life of it, skip is always true! even if skip is anything but
> zero!
>
> What can I do to skip if skip =0?
>
> Cheers,
> Bernd.
>
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