Output statement and value update in data step

agomez — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:15:44 GMT

Hello,

I have a very strange behaviour in a data step that looks like this:

data one (keep= a b x y z)

two (keep= a b z t)

three (keep = a b c);

set input_data; /* This data set contains all variables above */

select (a); /* A is an integer variable */

when (1) do;

b=2;

output one;

end;

when (2) do;

b=3;

output two;

end;

otherwise b=1;

end;

put "a:" a "b:" b;

output three;

run;

The values of a and b displayed in the log file via "put" are ok, but these values are somehow not written in the dataset three, which seems to keep the original values from the input_data table. I am afraid to be missing something very basic here, but I really cannot put the finger on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Andrés

Re: Output statement and value update in data step

agomez — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:21:12 GMT

Ok, problem solved. The problem was actually somewhere else

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