Thanks Larry,
I had tried that before but I had other syntax issues that kept it from working and never went back to it. Works like a charm, Paul From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:16 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Question on "IF variable NOT IN (list) then" << In the last ?IF? statement (IF vsget NOT IN (.vwordsfound) THEN) it is adding words that are already in the list, i.e. this, some, words. If I replace the statement with, IF vsget NOT IN (this,is,a) THEN, it works fine. What am I missing? >> Your using variable evaluation (the dot) where you need macro substitution (the ampersand). Unfortunately, R:Base cannot parse IF vSGet NOT IN ( &vWordsFound ) correctly. It is confused by the ampersand following the paren. So you need to do: SET VAR vMatchSet = ('(' + .vWordsFound + ')') IF vSGet NOT IN &vMatchSet THEN -- Stuff goes here. ENDIF -- Larry
