topic Re: Reverse in SAS Enterprise Guide

Reverse

Kenmar — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:04:59 GMT

I have an ID variable that I want to be able to reverse for privacy. Say I have a list of ID's like 1234, is there an easy way to make that observation 4321?

Re: Reverse

Reeza — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:13:35 GMT

The reverse() function ...

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000245941.htm

If your variable is numeric convert it to character first using PUT(var, 8.)

Re: Reverse

ballardw — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:30:42 GMT

If you would like something a bit more obscure and not subject to the issues of one id= 123 and another 321 in your data try the various bitwise logical functions if your ID is numeric.

For example look at

data _null_;
   do x= 10 to 1010 by 10 ;
   y = bnot(x);
   
   z = bnot(y);
   put y= z= ;
   end;
run;