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Demographer
Pyrite | Level 9

Hello,

I have a bunch of datasets labels a1y b2y c3y.

 

I would like to concatenate them into a single one, which would have a variable indicating the name of the original dataset.

It's probably easy, but I didn't find how.

 

Thank you

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User
data want;
set
  a1y
  b2y
  c3y
  indsname=_inname
;
inname = _inname;
run;

If you're having a larger bunch of datasets, you might consider to use a data _null_step with call execute to build that data step.

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User
data want;
set
  a1y
  b2y
  c3y
  indsname=_inname
;
inname = _inname;
run;

If you're having a larger bunch of datasets, you might consider to use a data _null_step with call execute to build that data step.

ballardw
Super User

Good practice would be to set the length of the inname variable so the whole dataset name fits. Length of $ 41 will allow for the maximum 8 characters for library, the period separator and 32 characters for the data set.

 

If you have similar named sets like: A1y A2y A3y you can use a List modifier of a colon after the stem to get all similar names. A: would include all data sets in the library whose names start with A for instance.

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