topic Split by 2 fifty variables in SAS Programming

Split by 2 fifty variables

jbs23 — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:46:52 GMT

Good morning!

I have a dataset like this

ID V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 ..

a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a 19259999999 19269999999 19269999999 19259999999 19279999999 19289999999 ..

I want to split V1, V2...V50 into two variables like this

ID V11 V12 V21 V22 V31 V32

a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a 1925 9999999 1926 9999999 1926 9999999 etc

thansk for all!!

Re: Split by 2 fifty variables

RW9 — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:23:10 GMT

First question, why do you have a dataset like that. You won't just find this particular problem harder, you will find all coding with that structure harder. As such your current question makes no sense.

It is however possible:

data want1 (keep=id var1--var10)
     want2 (keep=id var11--var50);
  set have;
run;

But as I say, it makes no sense. Normalise the data items (so they go down) and then process them as data elements.

Re: Split by 2 fifty variables

KachiM — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:35:14 GMT

If you want split variables, for V1, use:

v21 = int(V1 / 1e7);
v22 = mod(V1, 1e7);

Re: Split by 2 fifty variables

RW9 — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:37:34 GMT

Oh, is that what he meant! Still doesn't make much sense, but more than splitting variables between datasets. If they are character then just substr().