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Lulus
Obsidian | Level 7

 

 

 

if delflag=0 then output;
if happen=1 then delflag=1;

in the above two statement,

the lines with delflag=0 have been written to the want dataset and

how does the next if clause still truncate the rest of observations against the same id?

and even leave the first "happen=1" in the dataset?

 

 

I am trying to learn this logic.  your response is very appreicated.

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FreelanceReinh
Jade | Level 19

Hello @Lulus,

 

Here is what happens with each observation of your example dataset when mohamed_zaki's data step is executed (focusing on the three lines of code starting with "if"):

ID seq happen   comment
1   1    0      delflag is set to 0, obs. (incl. delflag) is written to WANT due to OUTPUT statement
1   2    0      delflag is still 0 due to RETAIN, obs. is written to WANT
1   3    1      delflag is still 0, obs. is written to WANT, delflag is set to 1
2   1    0      delflag is set to 0, obs. is written to WANT
2   2    1      delflag is still 0, obs. is written to WANT, delflag is set to 1
2   3    0      delflag is still 1, hence obs. is not written to WANT
2   4    1      delflag is still 1, hence obs. is not written to WANT, delflag is set to 1

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FreelanceReinh
Jade | Level 19

Hello @Lulus,

 

Here is what happens with each observation of your example dataset when mohamed_zaki's data step is executed (focusing on the three lines of code starting with "if"):

ID seq happen   comment
1   1    0      delflag is set to 0, obs. (incl. delflag) is written to WANT due to OUTPUT statement
1   2    0      delflag is still 0 due to RETAIN, obs. is written to WANT
1   3    1      delflag is still 0, obs. is written to WANT, delflag is set to 1
2   1    0      delflag is set to 0, obs. is written to WANT
2   2    1      delflag is still 0, obs. is written to WANT, delflag is set to 1
2   3    0      delflag is still 1, hence obs. is not written to WANT
2   4    1      delflag is still 1, hence obs. is not written to WANT, delflag is set to 1

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