Case statement when loading from Excel

[Anonymous]

Hi folks, been a while since using QV and need a refresher;  I'm loading from Excel and need something similar to a CASE & LIKE statment and can't remember the exact syntax.  I'm looking for something similar to below when loading from Excel (note Dept field is not present in the table I'm loading)

Dept =

     CASE

          WHEN user LIKE 'fi%' THEN 'Finance'

          WHEN user LIKE 'sm%' THEN 'Sales&Mktg',

          ELSE 'Other',

     END,

Cheers

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

LOAD

...somefields...,

if(wildmatch(user, 'fi*'),'Finance', if(wildmatch(user, 'sm*'),'Sales&Mktg', 'Other')) as Dept

FROM ...somewhere...;

[swuehl]

Or as an alternative, use a pick/match combination:

LOAD

     ....

    pick(

          wildmatch(user,'fi*','sm*',)+1

          ,'Other'

          ,'Finance'

          ,'Sales&Mktg'

     )                                    as Dept

FROM ....;

Might be easier to maintain if you add more cases.

[#4]

I like swuehl's solution best from a maintainability point of view, but if it's only going to be those three outcomes then the simpler solution might just be:

LOAD

     ....

    ,if(user like 'fi*' , 'Finance',

          if(user like 'sm*', 'Sales&Mktg',

          'Other') as Dept

FROM ....;