st: if else

[Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com>]

Dear Listers,
I have data with codes for the members who collected the data and I would like to assert that these codes are correct.

Here is what I have done

global member "john" // defined in another do-file

*** do-file that checks member codes *****
cd c:\temp/$member

input houscode      memid
        1      10101
        2      10101
        3      10101
end

if $member == "jane" {
	assert memid == 10201
	}
else if $member == "john" {
	assert memid == 10101
	}
exit

When I run this code, I get an error message -john not found-. What I had hoped is that this code would take the 
information in the $member and them check that the variable memid has the correct code

Am I missing something obvious. Please help

Ronnie
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