Hi!
I have a table with a column where some of the values (characters) are separated with a semicolon.
I want to split the values into two columns.
From:
Column 1 |
---|
1_LeftText;1_RightText |
2_Text |
3_LeftText;3_RightText |
To:
Column 1 | Column 2 |
---|---|
1_LeftText | 1_RightText |
2_Text | |
3_LeftText | 3_RightText |
Probably easy, but.... 🙂
lca
data have;
informat column $50.;
input column &;
datalines4;
1_LeftText;1_RightText
2_Text
3_LeftText;3_RightText
;;;;
data want;
set have;
format column1 column2 $25.;
column1=scan(column,1,";");
column2=scan(column,2,";");
run;
Consider Art's code and
drop the variable 'column' from the want data set if you want only two variables column1 and column2.
data want(drop=column);
set have;
format column1 column2 $25.;
column1=scan(column,1,";");
column2=scan(column,2,";");
run;
proc print data=want;
run;
Regards,
Vish
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