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Calcite | Level 5 zz
Calcite | Level 5

Hi, Could someone help me with the programming below please:

 

I need to format rows in a dataset by duplicating rows, from say

 

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element1Element2Element3

 

to

 

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element1

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element2

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element3

 

That is: Copy the row with fields, except the last; Parse out this field value and make each parsed out element as the field value of the duplicated rows.  How do I best go about it?

 

Thanks much in advance!

 

Zhuo

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Steelers_In_DC
Barite | Level 11

I got a little mixed up based on your description of input - output.  Let me know if this is the solution you are looking for, cheers:

 

data have;
infile cards dsd;
input ID01$  FirstName$  LastName$  Element1Element2Element3 $50.;
cards;
ID01,Mark,Johnson,test1|test2|test3
;

data prep(drop=Element1Element2Element3);
set have;
var1=scan(Element1Element2Element3,1,'|');
var2=scan(Element1Element2Element3,2,'|');
var3=scan(Element1Element2Element3,3,'|');
run;

proc transpose data=prep out=want(drop=_NAME_)prefix=Element;by ID01 firstname lastname;var var:;

zz
Calcite | Level 5 zz
Calcite | Level 5

Hi Steelers,

 

Thanks for the solution!  I will give it a try and let you know how it works!

 

Zhuo

zz
Calcite | Level 5 zz
Calcite | Level 5

Added delimiter for field:

 

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element1Del1Element2Del2Element3

 

to

 

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element1

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element2

ID01  FirstName  LastName  Element3

Ksharp
Super User

data prep;
set have;

do i=1 to countw(Element3,'|');
var=scan(Element3,i,'|');
output;

end;
run;

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