topic Re: finding first non missing variable in SAS Programming

finding first non missing variable

Aman4SAS — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:35:00 GMT

Hi All,

i have data like below:

data test;
input a b c;
datalines;
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 1 1
1 1 1
;
run;

i need output with same data added one more variable result as

a b c Result

1 0 0 A1

0 1 0 B2

0 1 1 B3

1 1 1 A4

please suggest to get the result

Re: finding first non missing variable

Loko — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:39:17 GMT

Hello,

Could you post the code you tried and / or describe what are the diificulties of building your own solution.

Re: finding first non missing variable

Aman4SAS — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:47:09 GMT

I am not able to imageing anything on it or i can try array and "if " conditions but its not seems good. Can u please suggest if any thing in sort available.

Thanks in advance

Re: finding first non missing variable

Reeza — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:55:13 GMT

Your last component appears to be the row and independent of the variable. You can get the row nimbler by using _n_.

You say first non missing value but you don't have any missing values in your data set.

Use WHICHN and VNAME to find the variable name

Array var_list(3) a b c;

Index = whichn(1, of var_list(*));
First_var = vname(var_list(index));

Re: finding first non missing variable

Aman4SAS — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:58:41 GMT

0 as missing value and 1 can be anything.. just to simplify i used 0 and 1,

Re: finding first non missing variable

Reeza — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:12:44 GMT

Making sample data that doesn't reflect your situation means having to answer your question twice.

Youll have to loop through the array then to find your first non missing value. You can use LEAVE to exit a loop.

VNAME can still be used to find variable name and _n_ for row number.