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Planck
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi

 

I have a table A with several variables.

Among all these variables I have one variable called "name". Data are sorted by this variable.

I can have several rows for one value of the column "name".

I would like to distinct them by adding an index column named ID.

 

An example of my table A

 

... name ...
... A ...
... B ...
... B ...
... D ...
... E ...
... E ...
... E ...
...

 

The table I need is like this:

 

 

... name ID ...
... A 1 ...
... B 1 ...
... B 2 ...
... D 1 ...
... E 1 ...
... E 2 ...
... E 3 ...
...

 

 

Do you know how I can do it?

Thanks

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Post test data in the form of a datastep, I am not here to type that in.  So this code is just and example:

data want;
  set have;
  by name;
  retain id;
  id=ifn(first.name1,id+1);
run;

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Post test data in the form of a datastep, I am not here to type that in.  So this code is just and example:

data want;
  set have;
  by name;
  retain id;
  id=ifn(first.name1,id+1);
run;
Planck
Obsidian | Level 7

Thanks for the answer.

Small mistake I correct:

data want;
  set have;
  by name;
  retain id;
  id=ifn(first.name,1,id+1);
run;

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