I cannot pin down the reason why the attached question is not working. It works fine when there are just a few if statements but not when there are 43 of them. Is there a maximum number of if statements in an equation? Thanks for help

Just to clarify, LS recognizes it as plain text, not a conditional statement with variables in it.

Obviously there is a limit of nesting.
I tried by removing one by one till it worked.

But you may use a workaround.

Do a different kind of nesting.
First sort the cities by number.
Then you can say:
if(Code<75,new if-statement of cities with numbers below75,new if-statement of cities with numbers above75)


{if(fbcode<75,
if(fbcode==44,"Airdrie",if(fbcode==55,"Andover",if(fbcode==56,"Arnold",if(fbcode==57,"Barrow",... ,if(fbcode==72,'Isle_of_Wight',"")))))))))))))))))))))),
if(fbcode==75,'Leeds_North_and_West',if(fbcode==76,'Letchworth',if(fbcode==77,'Lincoln',if(fbcode==78,'North_Enfield',if(fbcode==79,'North_Lakes',if(fbcode==82,'Northern_Devon',...,if(fbcode==99,'worcester','')))))))))))))))))))
)}

This way the nesting is lowered.


Joffm

And please, only attach lss exports.

lsq and lsg exports are language sensitive.
You cannot import a question into a survey with different base languages.

So first we have to guess which base language you used, and
second we have to create a new survey with this base language to import your question export.
So ease our life.

Many thanks Joffm. Your solution works, but I have actually pinned it down - one of the names had an apostrophe in it, which was confusing the code, because I used 'name' instead of "name". So 43 if statements is not too many after all. Sorry to waste your time!

Hi,

yes, 'King's_Lynn'.
My mistake, obviously I removed two cities copying to a text editor (King's Lynn & Kingston).
Therefore I didn't see it anymore.

Joffm