topic Re: i need greater number in num3 in SAS Programming

i need greater number in num3

aanan1417 — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:38:38 GMT

data have;

input num1 num2;

datalines;

1 2

4 3

7 9

11 10

;

run;

output

num1 num2 num3

1 2 2

4 3 4

7 9 9

11 10 11

PaigeMiller — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:45:12 GMT

Please explain further what you are doing. What is the logic that takes the input data in data set named HAVE and produces the output?

aanan1417 — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:50:41 GMT

num3 should have bigger value from num1 or num2

PaigeMiller — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:51:23 GMT

@aanan1417 wrote:

num3 should have bigger value from num1 or num2

data want;
    set have;
    num3=max(num1,num2);
run;

andreas_lds — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:59:06 GMT