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Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

VibhaChordiya — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:57:37 GMT

Hi,

I am new to sas array and loops. I was wondering if someone can help me with my query.

Please find below sample of my dataset. Basically I want to output only those rows where the difference betweeen reportdate of 2 records is more than 8.

so for example fromw below records - i would want to output row1, row4, row5,.....so on

i was looking at writing something like below - but its not working. I want a way to tell that reportdate of observation _n_ is....

data chk;

set test;

array reportarray {1}ReportDate ;

do until (EndofFile);

Daysdiff = reportarray[i+1] - reportarray;

Daysdiff > 8 then output;

end;

run;

Record	ReportDate	AcctNumber
1	07/06/09	ABC123456
2	13/06/09	ABC123456
3	21/06/09	ABC123456
4	28/06/09	ABC123456
5	02/03/10	ABC123456
6	07/03/10	ABC123456
7	30/04/10	ABC123456
8	02/05/10	ABC123456
9	30/06/10	ABC123456
10	04/07/10	ABC123456
11	11/07/10	ABC123456
12	18/07/10	ABC123456
13	30/09/10	ABC123456
14	03/10/10	ABC123456
15	30/04/11	ABC123456
16	01/05/11	ABC123456
17	30/07/11	ABC123456
18	31/07/11	ABC123456
19	13/06/09	DEF567890
20	21/06/09	DEF567890
21	28/06/09	DEF567890
22	05/07/09	DEF567890
23	02/02/10	DEF567890
24	09/02/10	DEF567890
25	16/02/10	DEF567890

Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

art297 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:43:18 GMT

Given your example which rows do you want to output?

Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

VibhaChordiya — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:56:53 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for looking into this. I want to output below rows:

Record	ReportDate	AcctNumber
1	07/06/09	ABC123456
2	28/06/09	ABC123456
3	02/03/10	ABC123456
5	30/04/10	ABC123456
7	30/06/10	ABC123456
11	30/09/10	ABC123456
13	30/04/11	ABC123456
15	30/07/11	ABC123456
17	13/06/09	DEF567890
21	02/02/10	DEF567890

Re: Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

Ksharp — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:08:32 GMT

It is so weird. Are you sure row4 is what you need?

data temp;
input Record     ReportDate : ddmmyy10.     AcctNumber : $10.;
format  ReportDate ddmmyy10.;
datalines;
1     07/06/09     ABC123456
2     13/06/09     ABC123456
3     21/06/09     ABC123456
4     28/06/09     ABC123456
5     02/03/10     ABC123456
6     07/03/10     ABC123456
7     30/04/10     ABC123456
8     02/05/10     ABC123456
9     30/06/10     ABC123456
10     04/07/10     ABC123456
11     11/07/10     ABC123456
12     18/07/10     ABC123456
13     30/09/10     ABC123456
14     03/10/10     ABC123456
15     30/04/11     ABC123456
16     01/05/11     ABC123456
17     30/07/11     ABC123456
18     31/07/11     ABC123456
19     13/06/09     DEF567890
20     21/06/09     DEF567890
21     28/06/09     DEF567890
22     05/07/09     DEF567890
23     02/02/10     DEF567890
24     09/02/10     DEF567890
25     16/02/10     DEF567890
;
run;
data want;
 set temp;
 dif=dif(ReportDate);
 if  AcctNumber ne lag(AcctNumber) then output;
  else if dif gt 8 then output;
  drop dif;
run;



Ksharp

Re: Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

Peter_C — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:29:29 GMT

requirement stated as

I want to output only those rows where the difference betweeen reportdate of 2 records is more than 8.

has more than 1 interpretation

output pairs with with difference > 8
output later of pair
output earlier

none of these requirements need ARRAY handling when the data are in order

The proposed code that follows produced the rows for Requirement 1 only.

As AcctNumber is shown among the data, I'll assume differences are relevant only within an account

Two "use cases" are not demonstrated in that test data, so I extended the test data by changing the ReportDate on record 12 to 20-jul-2011 (then record 12 will appear twice - once with record 11 and once with record 13), and to check that change in AcctNumber is tested, I added record 18.5

18.5,31/08/2011,ABC123457

I think the neatest solution uses "the read-ahead-merge"

With this data step

data requirement1 ;

option mergeNOby = NOwarn ;

merge test

test( firstobs=2 keep= ReportDate AcctNumber

rename=( AcctNumber = a2

ReportDate = d2 ) ) ;

if part = '1' then do;

part = '2' ;

output ;

part = ' ' ;

end ;

if AcctNumber ne a2 then delete ;

*********************************

* finished with this AcctNumber *

*********************************;

ddif = d2 - reportDate ;

if ddif > 8 then do ;

part = '1' ;

output ;

end ;

retain part ;

format ReportDate d2 date11. ;

run ;

option mergeNOby = warn ;

I obtained these rows

The SAS System 10:26 Saturday, October 22, 2011

Acct

Obs record ReportDate Number d2 a2 part ddif

1 4 28-JUN-2009 ABC123456 02-MAR-2010 ABC123456 1 247

2 5 02-MAR-2010 ABC123456 07-MAR-2010 ABC123456 2

3 6 07-MAR-2010 ABC123456 30-APR-2010 ABC123456 1 54

4 7 30-APR-2010 ABC123456 02-MAY-2010 ABC123456 2

5 8 02-MAY-2010 ABC123456 30-JUN-2010 ABC123456 1 59

6 9 30-JUN-2010 ABC123456 04-JUL-2010 ABC123456 2

7 11 11-JUL-2010 ABC123456 20-JUL-2010 ABC123456 1 9

8 12 20-JUL-2010 ABC123456 30-SEP-2010 ABC123456 2

9 12 20-JUL-2010 ABC123456 30-SEP-2010 ABC123456 1 72

10 13 30-SEP-2010 ABC123456 03-OCT-2010 ABC123456 2

11 14 03-OCT-2010 ABC123456 30-APR-2011 ABC123456 1 209

12 15 30-APR-2011 ABC123456 01-MAY-2011 ABC123456 2

13 16 01-MAY-2011 ABC123456 30-JUL-2011 ABC123456 1 90

14 17 30-JUL-2011 ABC123456 31-JUL-2011 ABC123456 2

15 22 05-JUL-2009 DEF567890 02-FEB-2010 DEF567890 1 212

16 23 02-FEB-2010 DEF567890 09-FEB-2010 DEF567890 2

Message was edited by: Peter Crawford ### was appearing for trailing blanks on some lines of code, so it seemed a tidy idea to clean

Re: Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

VibhaChordiya — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:46:36 GMT

Thanks Peter C.

Re: Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

VibhaChordiya — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:46:59 GMT

Thanks Ksharp

Re: Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

MikeZdeb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:04:54 GMT

Hi ... just a variation on the Ksharp solution (same result) ...

data want;

set temp;

by acctnumber;

if first.acctnumber or (^first.acctnumber and dif(reportdate) gt 8);

run;

Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

Peter_C — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:39:45 GMT

won't that always select the first row of an account number?

Re: Do Loop / Array to output based on sequentisl rows of a dataset

MikeZdeb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:02:48 GMT

hi ... yes, it matches the response to "Given your example which rows do you want to output?"