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ernie86
Calcite | Level 5

I have Group and Cities columns in my dataset, and some of the cities are duplicates. I want to find the unique cities. How can I code that?

 

GroupCitiesUnique Cities
AHouston, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Los AngelesHoustin, New York, Los Angeles
BChicago, Boston, BostonChicago, Boston
CMiami, Worcester, Worcester, Springfield, Springfield, Atlanta, AtlantaMiami, Worcester, Springfield, Atlanta
DOakland, Oakland, Oakland, Dallas, DallasOakland, Dallas
ELancaster, Boston, Madison, Madison, Madison, MadisonLancaster, Boston, Madison
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ballardw
Super User

A single pass with a data step will work:

data want;
   set have;
   length unique $ 100;
   do i = 1 to countw(cities,',');
      if indexw(unique,scan(cities,i,','))=0 then unique=catx(', ',unique,scan(cities,i,','));
   end;
   drop i;
run;

The Unique variable should have the same length as the cities variable.

 

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Steelers_In_DC
Barite | Level 11

Here's a rough version, for the final I would add some macros so you don't have to know how many cities their are, macro variables should be able to take care of that and shorten the code:

 

data have;
infile cards dsd dlm='*';
informat group $1. cities $100.;
input group$ cities$;
cards;
A*Houston, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
B*Chicago, Boston, Boston
C*Miami, Worcester, Worcester, Springfield, Springfield, Atlanta, Atlanta
D*Oakland, Oakland, Oakland, Dallas, Dallas
E*Lancaster, Boston, Madison, Madison, Madison, Madison
;

data start;
set have;
comma=countc(cities,',')+1;
scan1=strip(scan(cities,comma-0,','));
scan2=strip(scan(cities,comma-1,','));
scan3=strip(scan(cities,comma-2,','));
scan4=strip(scan(cities,comma-3,','));
scan5=strip(scan(cities,comma-4,','));
scan6=strip(scan(cities,comma-5,','));
scan7=strip(scan(cities,comma-6,','));
run;

proc transpose data=start out=tran(drop=_NAME_);by group;var scan:;

proc sort data=tran nodup;by group col1;where not missing(col1);

proc transpose data=tran out=tran2(drop=_NAME_);by group;var col1;

data want(keep=group unique);
set tran2;
unique=catx(',',of col1-col4);
run;

ballardw
Super User

A single pass with a data step will work:

data want;
   set have;
   length unique $ 100;
   do i = 1 to countw(cities,',');
      if indexw(unique,scan(cities,i,','))=0 then unique=catx(', ',unique,scan(cities,i,','));
   end;
   drop i;
run;

The Unique variable should have the same length as the cities variable.

 

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