Hi all, I am trying to use an array with a loop to automate a process of marking rows for keeping.
I have a variable called "table" which contains output from a proc freq crosstab, so it contains variable names, e.g. "sex-1*county" "race-1*county".
Those same variables (sex-1 and race-1) are also variables in that same table, i.e.
---
table sex-1 race-1
sex1*county . .
sex1*county 1 .
race1*county . 1
race1*county . .
---
data attempt;
set mytable;
array vlist sex-1 race-1;
do i = 1 to dim(vlist);
if index(table,vlist{i}) then
if vlist{i}=1, keepme=1;
end;
drop i;
run;
--
The problem with this is that when I search using INDEX, I believe SAS is using the value of the variable for that row, and not the variable name itself. Sorry for the long winded question, is there a way to return the array element as a text representation of the variable name, rather than the value of that variable in that row?
Thanks.
use the vname function.
vname(vlist(i));
So simple - Thank you!
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