topic Re: How to avoid splitting in ODS and Base Reporting

How to avoid splitting

thanikondharish — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:45:13 GMT

Data EX;
Name='jhonson Peter clerk audits cinema movie running';
Run;
I have one data set ex now I want to split 10. Letters but the word should be full like
Length 10----> Johnson pe
So the above condition splitting the Peter so pe is coming in this case we should take only Johnson word.
Next continue the 10 length word so the next new variable columns has 'peter clerk' like that
So how
to do above scenario

Re: How to avoid splitting

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:01:31 GMT

What does your desired result look like? Do you want an observation for each split or?

Re: How to avoid splitting

thanikondharish — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:03:17 GMT

Yes

Re: How to avoid splitting

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:38:15 GMT

Ok. Do you have more than one observation in your actual EX Data set?

Re: How to avoid splitting

Ksharp — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:24:33 GMT

Data EX;
Name='jhonson Peter clerk audits cinema movie running';
Run;
data want;
 set ex;
 length want _want $ 100;
 do i=1 to countw(name,' ');
   temp=scan(name,i,' ');
   _want=want;
   want=catx(' ',want,temp); 
   if length(want)>11 then do;want=_want;output;want=temp;end;
 end;
 output;
 drop temp _want i;
 run;

Re: How to avoid splitting

Astounding — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:03:28 GMT

Give an example of what you want if you have a name like "Bartholomew" instead of "Peter" ... something that is longer than 10 characters in a single word.