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mlogan
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

Hi All,

Is there a way to remove duplicate on all data except few that I am not interested in.

In the following table I want to remove the duplicate, but I want to exclude where the Course_ID=Eng. Can somebody help please. Thanks.

 

Table1:

Student_ID Course_ID

101             Eng            

102             Bio

102             Geo

102             Bio

102             Geo

101             Eng

 

PROC SORT DATA= table1
		  OUT = want
		  NODUPKEY DUPOUT= have_DUPDEL;
BY Student_ID Course_ID;
RUN;

 

Output:

Student_ID Course_ID

101             Eng      

101             Eng      

102             Bio

102             Geo

 

 

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions
Ksharp
Super User
data have;
input Student_ID Course_ID $;
cards;
101             Eng            
102             Bio
102             Geo
102             Bio
102             Geo
101             Eng
;
run;


PROC SORT DATA= have
		  OUT = temp;
BY Student_ID Course_ID;
RUN;

data want;
 set temp;
 by Student_ID Course_ID;
 if first.Course_ID or Course_ID='Eng';
run;


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mkeintz
PROC Star

data vtemp / view=vtemp;

  set have;

  if course_id='Eng' then keepdup=_n_;

run;

 

proc sort data=vtemp out=want (drop=keepdup) nodupkey  DUPOUT= have_DUPDEL ;

  by student_id course_id  keepdup;

run;

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Ksharp
Super User
data have;
input Student_ID Course_ID $;
cards;
101             Eng            
102             Bio
102             Geo
102             Bio
102             Geo
101             Eng
;
run;


PROC SORT DATA= have
		  OUT = temp;
BY Student_ID Course_ID;
RUN;

data want;
 set temp;
 by Student_ID Course_ID;
 if first.Course_ID or Course_ID='Eng';
run;


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