topic Re: Scanning and getting combinations from a long field in SAS Programming

Scanning and getting combinations from a long field

angeliquec — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:29:22 GMT

I have this dataset (have) with number combinations in column b.

If column b contains the numbers 100, 200, 100 and 200, it should give the tag ="check".

If column b contains a combination of 100 and not 200, it should give no tag.

Can this be possible in one data step?

Code is below:

data have;
input a b :$32.;
cards;
1 100-100
2 300
3 200-100
4 300-300-300-100
5 200
;
run;

/*If b in ('100', '200') then tag = "check"*/

data want;
input a b :$32. tag $5.;
cards;
1 100-100 tag
2 300
3 200-100 tag
4 300-300-100
5 200 tag
;
run;

Re: Scanning and getting combinations from a long field

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:41:47 GMT

data have;
input a b :$32.;
cards;
1 100-100
2 300
3 200-100
4 300-300-300-100
5 200
;
run;

data want;
set have;
marker_100 = 0;
marker_else = 0;
do i = 1 to countw(b,'-');
  if scan(b,i,'-') in ('100','200')
  then marker_100 = 1;
  else marker_else = 1;
end;
if marker_100 and not marker_else then tag = 'tag';
drop i marker_100 marker_else;
run;

Re: Scanning and getting combinations from a long field

angeliquec — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:54:45 GMT

thank you Kurt!