topic Using ARRAY and Scan function together in SAS Programming

Using ARRAY and Scan function together

PatriciaEilerman — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:42:30 GMT

Hello, Is it possible to use the Array and scan together. With the current project I'm working on, I'm currently using the scan function to pull individual variable from a column. For example, here an example of a code I wrote out:

data test;

set temp;

CODE1=scan(CODE,1, ' ');

CODE2=scan(CODE,2,' ');

.CODE27=scan(CODE,27,' ');

run;

Is it possible to used an 'array' function to simplied this code. Thanks.

Re: Using ARRAY and Scan function together

PGStats — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:11:47 GMT

Of course, it is possible

data test;
set temp;
array c code1-code27;
do i = 1 to dim(c);
	c{i} = scan(CODE, i, ' ');
	end;
drop i CODE;
run;

Re: Using ARRAY and Scan function together

PatriciaEilerman — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:25:03 GMT

The code appears to work, but the variable (CODE) is a character variable and I'm getting the error message mentioning numeric data.

Re: Using ARRAY and Scan function together

PatriciaEilerman — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:48:21 GMT

Nevermind. I got it to work now. thanks to everyone help.