topic Re: Copy portions of column based on other column in SAS Procedures

Copy portions of column based on other column

Daisy2 — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:16:54 GMT

I have one column (NC) that I want to copy to another new column (NCMeas), but whenever column "Selected" = 0 I want the new column "NCMeas" to be empty. How do I do that? These are all numeric columns. Thanks.

data want;
  set have;
  NC = NCMeas;
  if Selected=0 then call NCMeas ????;
run;

Re: Copy portions of column based on other column

PaigeMiller — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:35:15 GMT

if Selected=0 then call missing(NCMeas);

Re: Copy portions of column based on other column

Shmuel — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:36:13 GMT

data want;
  set have;
  NCMeas = NC;
  if Selected=0 then call missing(NCMeas) ;
run;

alternative code:

data want;
  set have;
       if Selected=0 then call missing(NCMeas) ;
       else  NCMeas = NC;
run;