Hash Question!

[gyambqt]

Hello Experts,

When I create a hash table, I have to specify the key value, but if I want to replace the key value with a new variable created during the hash iterator process within the same data step. How do I do that?

For the code below, I want the dataset work.temp1(highlighted in red) to be created  before it hold by "mylittlehash1" ,how do I achieve that?

My goal is to use one single datastep (with hash) to complete the task as shown in the code below.

data work.temp1 work.temp2;
attrib filename length=$1000
sfname length=$1000
key length=$1000;

if _n_=1 then do;
declare hash mylittlehash(dataset: 'library.want', ordered:'yes');
declare hiter mylittlehashter('mylittlehash');
mylittlehash.defineData('filename');
mylittlehash.defineKey('sfname');
mylittlehash.defineDone();
call missing(filename,sfname,key);
end;
rc=mylittlehashter.first();
do until (rc ne 0);
perlexpression2=prxparse("/\w*(\w\w\d\d\d\d)(\w)\w*/");
if prxmatch(perlexpression2,filename) then do;
Key=upcase((prxposn(perlexpression2,1,filename)));
output work.temp1;
rc=mylittlehashter.next();
end;
end;

declare hash mylittlehash1(dataset: 'work.temp1', ordered:'yes', duplicate: 'r');
mylittlehash1.defineKey('key');
mylittlehash1.defineData('key');
mylittlehash1.defineDone();
end;

set files_found;
perlexpression=prxparse("/\w*(\w\w\d\d\d\d)(\w)\w*/");
if prxmatch(perlexpression,filename) then do;
Key=upcase((prxposn(perlexpression,1,filename)));
end;

if prxposn(perlexpression,2,filename)="Z";
rc=mylittlehash1.check();
if rc=0 then output work.temp2;

run;

Thanks

[Patrick]

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