Hi
I am new to SAS, so please bear with me. I am trying to use an array to split a 240 character field of death codes into 48 new variables, each with a width of 5 characters .... with a starting position that moves from 1, 6, 11, 16, 21 etc. Alas, my syntax below keeps succumbing to the error message "The array subscript is out of range":
data b;
set a;
array split(48) $ entity1 - entity48;
do i = 1-48;
j = ((i-1)*5)+1;
split(i) = substr(entity_axis_data,j,5);
end;
run;
Any pearls of wisdom would be appreciated immensely.
Janine