Hello EG Users,
How can one store value that represents distinct rows of a variable in dataset into macro?
Data have;
Week Activity
5 Pingpong
10 Badminton
15 Chess
I would like to count distinct values for Week, which is 3 in this case and store it in macro Week_Distinct.
I would appreciate your instructions on how to achieve that?
Regards,
Dhanashree
untested code
proc sql noprint;
select distinct(week) into :week_distinct from have;
quit;
hi,
correct sql should be:
Data have;
input Week Activity :$;
cards;
5 Pingpong
10 Badminton
15 Chess
;
proc sql ;
select count(distinct week) into :week_distinct from have;
quit;
238 %put &week_distinct;
3
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