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DangIT
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

I am stuck on creating a macro to loop through the values of 2 variables to recode into a new variable.

The logic looks like:

Variable 'Fruit' has values of 'Banana' 'Apple' 'Orange'

Variable 'Status' has values of 'Rotten' 'Fresh'

I would like to create the variable 'Fruit_Status' that is a concatenation of Fruit and Status, with values:

Banana Rotten

Banana Fresh

Apple Rotten

Apple Fresh

etc.

The basic logic where I can write out all combinations is:

IF Fruit="Banana' and Status='Rotten' THEN Fruit_Status=cat(Fruit," ",Status) ;

...

I imagine there is a much more elegant solution.

Thank you for your help!

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Reeza
Super User

Cross Join in SQL

proc sql;

create table want as

select a.fruit, b.status, cat(a.fruit, " ", b.status) as fruit_status

from have as a

cross join have as b;

quit;

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Reeza
Super User

Cross Join in SQL

proc sql;

create table want as

select a.fruit, b.status, cat(a.fruit, " ", b.status) as fruit_status

from have as a

cross join have as b;

quit;

DangIT
Fluorite | Level 6

Sorry ignore this thread..

I feel like such an idiot!

Fruit_Status=cat(Fruit," ",Status) ;

does exactly what i want..

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