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NilsNoh
Calcite | Level 5

Hey Guys,

 

I have a problem, I want to merge 2 sas tables with some WHERE restrictions.

 

My code is as follows

 

data merged;

merge table1 (in=a (...) where=(month=""))

           table2(in=b (...) where=(month between "201706" and "201806 or last_month between "201706 and "201806"  and not                 anyalpha(PERSONAL_ID)));

by personal_id;

(...)

 run;

 

Somehow, the code doesn't get the anyalpha statement and thus can't merge the two tables. I think more work needs to be done within the second WHERE statement but not sure how to solve the problem.

 

When I sort out the IDs with alpha characters in a data step before the merger, it works out. But not within the merge statement

 

Cheers!

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

As posted, your second where= dataset option has a problem because of missing quotes.

 

Please post some example data (data steps with datalines) that illustrate your issue (unless solving the missing quotes problem also solves your issue).

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

There are a few mistakes here:

1) missing quote from after 201806 in both instances

2) month (numeric) cannot be within a string

3) month (number 1-12) cannot be within a 2 year gap - which would need to know year.

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