How to read variable value?

lakshmi_74 — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:25:24 GMT

I want to read the dataset and assign the value correcsponding variable number. How can i solve it? Thanks.

data have;

input number v1 v2 v3 v4 v5;

datalines;

1 23 34 45 56 67

5 12 33 44 55 66

;

run;

i want the output like: Accoding to number value it should read the corresponding variabe value into Final variable

Re: How to read variable value?

Tom — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:36:41 GMT

Sounds like a simple use case of indexing into an array.

data want ;
  set have ;
  array x v1-v15 ;
  if 1 <= number <= dim(x) then final=x(number);
run;