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urban58
Quartz | Level 8

Hello,

 

I would like to find the last digit after the decimal place of the non-integer variable in SAS 9.4.

e.g. I would like the last digit of 1.48 to show up as 8

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infile datalines flowover;
input cohort id t1_trial1 t1_trial2 t1_trial3 t2_trial1 t2_trial2 t2_trial3;
datalines;
1 30 1.6054 1.48 1.675 1.88 1.905 2.015
1 31 2.235 1.605 1.64 1.81 1.815 1.855
1 32 3.87 3.075 3.06 3.295 3.18 3.155
1 55 2.76 2.535 2.97 2.76 2.7 3.275
1 56 3.945 3.075 3.065 5.835 4.89 4.5459
1 67 2.05 1.945 1.56 3.015 3.005 3.135
1 76 1.65 2.165 1.87 2.99 2.22 2.5
;;;;
proc print; run;

/*I tried the following but no success */
data test2;
set test;

array l1 t1_trial1 - t1_trial3;
array l2 t2_trial1 - t2_trial3;
do over;
last1 = substr(l1, 1, length(l1)-1);
last2 = substr(l2, 1,length(l2)-1);
end;

run;

 

Would appreciate some help!

Margaret

 

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SASKiwi
PROC Star

Reading your data as character is the way to do this:

data test;
input cohort id $ t1_trial1 $ t1_trial2 $ t1_trial3 $ t2_trial1 $ t2_trial2 $ t2_trial3 $;
datalines;
1 30 1.6054 1.48 1.675 1.88 1.905 2.015
1 31 2.235 1.605 1.64 1.81 1.815 1.855
1 32 3.87 3.075 3.06 3.295 3.18 3.155
1 55 2.76 2.535 2.97 2.76 2.7 3.275
1 56 3.945 3.075 3.065 5.835 4.89 4.5459
1 67 2.05 1.945 1.56 3.015 3.005 3.135
1 76 1.65 2.165 1.87 2.99 2.22 2.5
;
run;

data test2;
set test;
array trials t1_trial1 - t1_trial3 t2_trial1 - t2_trial3;
array last_digits $ last_digit1 - last_digit6;
do i = 1 to dim(trials);
 last_digits(i) = first(reverse(trim(trials(i))));
end;
run;

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SASKiwi
PROC Star

Reading your data as character is the way to do this:

data test;
input cohort id $ t1_trial1 $ t1_trial2 $ t1_trial3 $ t2_trial1 $ t2_trial2 $ t2_trial3 $;
datalines;
1 30 1.6054 1.48 1.675 1.88 1.905 2.015
1 31 2.235 1.605 1.64 1.81 1.815 1.855
1 32 3.87 3.075 3.06 3.295 3.18 3.155
1 55 2.76 2.535 2.97 2.76 2.7 3.275
1 56 3.945 3.075 3.065 5.835 4.89 4.5459
1 67 2.05 1.945 1.56 3.015 3.005 3.135
1 76 1.65 2.165 1.87 2.99 2.22 2.5
;
run;

data test2;
set test;
array trials t1_trial1 - t1_trial3 t2_trial1 - t2_trial3;
array last_digits $ last_digit1 - last_digit6;
do i = 1 to dim(trials);
 last_digits(i) = first(reverse(trim(trials(i))));
end;
run;
urban58
Quartz | Level 8
Thank you so much for the speedy reply, it worked great!
Much appreciated

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