How to create multiple dataset from one dataset?

[mlogan]

Can anyone tell me what would be the code for creating multiple dataset from one dataset in one data step?

Example: I have the following info dataset

Name  City          Country

John   New York  USA

Albert Toronto      Canada

Alice  Sydney      Australia

I want to create 3 dataset called USA, Canada and Australia from info dataset above. I tried the following way, but it's not working:

data usa canada australia;

set info;

if country='usa' then output usa;

if country='Canada' then output Canada;

if country='Australia' then output Australia;

run;

can anyone help please. Thanks.

[ChrisHemedinger]

Here's an article that I wrote recently:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2015/01/26/how-to-split-one-data-set-into-many/

Be sure to read the comments, as several other experts have weighed in with improvements.

Chris

[art297]

I seem to recall someone already answering this last week. One of your records shows the country as USA, but your if statement is looking for usa.

[ChrisHemedinger]

Here's the other thread:

With some of the spam activity, we've seen some people add messages more than once because messages by brand new users are moderated.  We've been trying to weed out the duplicates, but some still slip through.

Chris

[FriedEgg]

Consider whether you really need to split this dataset of if you are better off processing using BY or CLASS statements.