Comma delmitied variable to multiple rows

[jerry898969]

Hello,

I have a csv file that I'm working on that list members to a club.  The data is very bad and I'm trying to clean it up.  The first issue is that they put multiple people to one row using commas to seperate.  So the fname field could have 1 or many commas.  I want to take every field and leave it the same except for FName.  For example

FName                           LName       Address        

Bob, Joe, William, Dave  Jones         1234 Test St

There are many more variables but this is how I need the data to render

FName                           LName       Address        

Bob                               Jones         1234 Test St

Joe                               Jones         1234 Test St

William                         Jones

1234 Test St

Dave                            Jones

1234 Test St

Thank you for any help you can give me.

[art297 · Accepted solution]

data have;

  informat FName LName Address $50.;

  input (FName  LName       Address) (&);

  cards;       

Bob, Joe, William, Dave  Jones         1234 Test St

;

data want (drop=_:);

  length FName $50;

  set have (rename=FName=_FName);

  _i=1;

  do while (scan(_FName,_i,',') ne '');

    FName=scan(_FName,_i,',');

    output;

    _i+1;

  end;

run;

[jerry898969]

Hi Arthur,

Thank you so much.  That worked perfectly.

You have been a great help to me and I truly appreciate it.

Thank you,

Jerry