IF statement with series' elements

[recoba20]

Hello,
I have a question about "if statement". When I write the following program (see below), Eviews compare the series and not each element of the series. Do you know how should I modify the program to achieve what I want? Thanks a lot!


series test1
test1= variable1 + variable1bis

series test2
test2 = variable2

series test3
if test1 > test2 then
test3 = test1
else test3 = test2
endif

[EViews Gareth]

http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3765

[recoba20]

I have checked the link but what I want to do is different

actually I want to generate a serie C which is composed with the maximum of either serie A or serie B as shown below

serie A is
1
65

serie B is
200
2

I would like to automatically generate serie C
200
65

my series A and B have 7000 lines, that is why I want to make it automatically.

Hope you can help me, thanks a lot!

[EViews Gareth]

You can use the information in that link to do that. Either with a smpl statement, or with a recode.

[recoba20]

@recode works pretty well, thanks a lot!