topic Re: Update of Table in SAS Programming

Update of Table

01SASUser — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:34:37 GMT

I have a table that looks like this:

What I want to do is I will update the values of Col2 and Col3 by getting the value of Col2 and Col3 in the next row.

For example, after updating my initial table, it should now look like this

Loko — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:04:42 GMT

Hello,

data have;
infile datalines truncover;
input Col1 $ Col2 $ Col3 $ ;
datalines;
1st
2nd
3rd Info Info
4th
;

data want;
merge have(keep=col1) have(drop=col1 firstobs=2);
run;

LinusH — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:16:19 GMT

There's got to be more rules that could apply to this update, no? What about id/by variables, sort order...?

Unless, you could just copy paste in a view data window....

01SASUser — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:27:15 GMT

I tried the program and it worked! thanks for helping!