topic Re: separate variable in SAS Programming

separate variable

rvsidhu035 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:25:21 GMT

name $ gender $ age;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5 how to separate this three variable

Re: separate variable

novinosrin — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:34:17 GMT

data have;
h='raviM26';
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
run;

Re: separate variable

rvsidhu035 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:42:38 GMT

not work for all

data have;
input h $ @@;
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
datalines;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5
;
run;

Re: separate variable

novinosrin — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:50:51 GMT

It does work, you are not reading correctly as you missed out the informat in the input statement

data have;
input h : $9. @@;
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
datalines;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5
;
run;

Re: separate variable

rvsidhu035 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:55:41 GMT

super work for any length of h