topic Re: Import Excel File- Columns to Multiple observation in SAS Programming

Import Excel File- Columns to Multiple observation

Kalai2008 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 01:56:23 GMT

I am trying to import excel file to SAS using Proc Import.

There are 3 columns in Excel file.One of the column have different values separated by random delimiters like comma or space or 'and' or double space..seems very random.

Given Excel file data

ID Values Date

1 2017138 2/16/2018

2 2017456 2017778 2/16/2018

3 2017458 and 309878 2/16/2018

4 20178 2078654 2/15/2018

Output needed:

ID Values Date

1 2017138 2/16/2018

2 2017456 2/16/2018

2 2017778 2/16/2018

3 2017458 2/16/2018

3 309878 2/16/2018

I want like above output,treat the values for ID 2 into two separate observations, Is it possible to create output (multiple observation) like this from a single record during proc import or in Data step/Data step after importing?

Thanks for checking!

Re: Import Excel File- Columns to Multiple observation

Astounding — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 02:05:26 GMT

While you can't do this during the import, a DATA step can handle this pretty well.

data want;

set imported_data;

newvar = compress(values, , 'kds');

do _n_=1 to countw(newvar);

values = scan(newvar, _n_);

output;

end;

drop newvar;

run;

"kds" = keep digits and spaces

Re: Import Excel File- Columns to Multiple observation

Kalai2008 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 02:50:08 GMT

Thank you for reply...My Value column also contain alphabets,alpha/numeric, so the below code truncated it.

Re: Import Excel File- Columns to Multiple observation

Astounding — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:24:03 GMT

Then you need to know the complete list of values to ignore. For example:

data want;

set imported_data;

newvar = values;

if values=' ' then output;

else do _n_=1 to countw(newvar);

values = scan(newvar, _n_);

if values not in ('and') then output;

end;

drop newvar;

run;

You can add to the list of values in parentheses (which right now contain just the one item 'and').

Re: Import Excel File- Columns to Multiple observation

Kalai2008 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:32:59 GMT

Thank you so much.. It worked.