Solved: Re: Fill in Blanks with 'NA'

may0423 · Posted 12-26-2016 11:01 PM

Hello~

I am trying to replace blanks (which were not noted as '.', see attachment, line5, line8-9, line13-14) with 'NA' by if location =' ' then 'NA'; but nothing happened. Please help. Thank you!

Ksharp · Posted 12-26-2016 11:30 PM

There are some unprintable character other than white blank.

data x;
location='      ';output;
location='09'x;output;
location='xxxxxx';output;
run;
data x;
 set x;
 if prxmatch('/^\s+$/',location) then new='NA        ';
  else new=location;
run;

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mnjtrana · Posted 12-26-2016 11:09 PM

You can try missing function:

IF Missing(Location) then Location = 'NA';

run;

Cheers from India!

Manjeet

may0423 · Posted 12-26-2016 11:14 PM

thank you for the quick response!

but it doesn't work......T.T

Reeza · Posted 12-26-2016 11:21 PM

Post your code and log please

may0423 · Posted 12-26-2016 11:30 PM

Besides, how could I extract the location between <dt>Location</dt> <dd> and </dd>? (see attachment)

data testlocation;
filename indata url 'http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7286873-To-our-readers' lrecl=10000;
infile indata length=len;
input record $varying10000. len;
input @ '<dt>Join Date</dt> <dd>' / location :&$10000. ;
if location = ' ’ then location = ‘NA’;

data order_location;
set work. testlocation;
rank_num=_n_;
run;

Ksharp · Posted 12-26-2016 11:30 PM

There are some unprintable character other than white blank.

data x;
location='      ';output;
location='09'x;output;
location='xxxxxx';output;
run;
data x;
 set x;
 if prxmatch('/^\s+$/',location) then new='NA        ';
  else new=location;
run;

may0423 · Posted 12-26-2016 11:37 PM

I just adapted

 if prxmatch('/^\s+$/',location) then new='NA        ';
  else new=location;

a little bit. It worked! thank you Ksharp.

Reeza · Posted 12-26-2016 11:38 PM

@may0423 wrote:

see attachment

A picture attachment is not helpful. If we want to mock up code we have to manually type out your data. If you have blank characters besides spaces there's no way to check.

Post as text or a SAS dataset but posting an image is not very useful.

Ksharp · Posted 12-27-2016 12:01 AM

filename indata url 'http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7286873-To-our-readers' lrecl=10000;

data testlocation;
infile indata length=len;
input record $varying10000. len;
retain start;
if record =: '<body>' then start=1;
if start then do;
 record=prxchange('s/\<[^\<\>]+\>//',-1,record);
 if not prxmatch('/^\s+$/',record) then output;
end;
run;


data want;
 set testlocation;
 lag=lag(record);
 if prxmatch('/^\s*View Profile/',record) then do;record=lag;output;end;
 if prxmatch('/^\s*(Join Date|Location|Posts)/',record) then output;
run;

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