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Bronnewasser
Calcite | Level 5

One column contains numeric and character. I want to split this to two columns.

1234567 - Romana

The number is a registernumber and the name is the name of the registergood.

I want two columns.

Reg.nr.        and        name

1234567                    Romana

 

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

To split the string, use the scan() function, and then you can further process the parts:

data want;
set have;
numvar = input(scan(oldvar,1,'-'),best.);
length namevar $20; * use sufficient length here;
namevar = strip(scan(oldvar,2,'-')); * strip removes blanks;
run;

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