topic Re: Merge step1 step2 ... step27 in SAS Enterprise Guide

Merge step1 step2 ... step27

Lupacante — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:34:40 GMT

Hi all,

is there a way to merge a lot of datsets with increasing suffixes?

data mydataset;

merge step1 step2 step3 [...] step27;

by myvar;

run;

is very long to write.

data mydatset;

merge step1 - step27;

by myvar;

run;

doesn't work...

any suggestions?

Re: Merge step1 step2 ... step27

Ksharp — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:42:21 GMT

What version of sas are you using ? I can run your code.

Re: Merge step1 step2 ... step27

Lupacante — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:44:29 GMT

SAS enterprise guide

Re: Merge step1 step2 ... step27

Haikuo — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:31:39 GMT

Merge statement supports data sets lists, so It should work.

Please elaborate more on "doesn't work...". Did it throw an error message or it didn't work the way you expected? Do you have the log? More details would be helpful.

So you are using the Eguide, but what version? 4.3/5.1 or 6.1?

Regards,

Haikuo

Re: Merge step1 step2 ... step27

Lupacante — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:12:00 GMT

IT's 4.1.

It doesn't run at all, just gives an error message.

It's ok though, I've solved it by writing a macro around it as RW9 suggested.

Thanks for your answers

Re: Merge step1 step2 ... step27

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:14:31 GMT

With a macro:

data mydataset;

merge

%macro datasets;

%do i = 1 %to 27;

step&i

%end;

%mend;

%datasets

;

by myvar;

run;

But you don't need that, as others already said, the set1-set27 solution works at least in 9.2.