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purveshrana
Fluorite | Level 6

I have a dataset

 

columns:    A                B                    C           D

                  APPLE      BALL              123         .

                 APPLE       BALL                 .           123

 

 

I WANT AN OUTPUT TO BE LIKE FOLLOWING

           A                       B                       C            D

      APPLE                 BALL               123           123 

 

How can I solve this in single step ? Thanks

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Astounding
PROC Star

If it takes just column A to determine a unique observation:

 

data want;

update have (obs=0) have;

by a;

run;

 

If it takes the combination of both columns A and B, switch to:

 

data want;

update have (obs=0) have;

by a b;

run;

 

In any case, the data need to be in sorted order to be allowed to use the BY statement.

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Astounding
PROC Star

If it takes just column A to determine a unique observation:

 

data want;

update have (obs=0) have;

by a;

run;

 

If it takes the combination of both columns A and B, switch to:

 

data want;

update have (obs=0) have;

by a b;

run;

 

In any case, the data need to be in sorted order to be allowed to use the BY statement.

purveshrana
Fluorite | Level 6

I figured out a way. Thank you.

Reeza
Super User

@purveshrana for completion, please post the solution or mark one here as correct. 

 

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