topic Re: how to create flags for variables with no indentation in SAS Programming

how to create flags for variables with no indentation

HitmonTran — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 05:31:07 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to see if I can create a flag variable for values with indentations and no indenation?

thanks

Norman21 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 05:50:36 GMT

For the indented variables, is the first character a blank? If so, you can use the SUBSTR function:

ResoluteCarbon — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:10:08 GMT

Not yet checked but I think you want something like that

data want;

 set have;

   If substr(LABEL,1,1)=' ' then i=1;

  else i=0;

run;