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Stretlow
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi.

I'm struggling a little with extracting string data from multiple rows via a delimiter. I have 1 variable named Rule_Results with multiple observations.

The data is pretty standard through out the rows, here's a snapshot of three rows:-

 

USERKNOWN=Y;SIGMATCH=N;SIGMATCHDEVICEALIAS=N;DEVICEIDCHECK=N;EXCEPTION=N;UNTRUSTEDIP=N; USERKNOWN=Y;SIGMATCH=N;SIGMATCHDEVICEALIAS=N;DEVICEIDCHECK=N;EXCEPTION=N;UNTRUSTEDIP=N; USERKNOWN=Y;SIGMATCH=N;SIGMATCHDEVICEALIAS=N;DEVICEIDCHECK=N;EXCEPTION=N;UNTRUSTEDIP=N;

 

What im trying to do is us the ";" delimiter to extract the data in between into a new row.

 

I've found the following on these boards but am struggling to get it to work. 

 

data loop;
set Import;

do i = 1 to countw(Rule_Results,';');
_Rule_Results_ = scan(Rule_Results,i,';');
end;

run;

 

 

Any help is appreciated. Stret

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Reeza
Super User

You're missing the OUTPUT statement to create a new record.

 

data loop;
set Import;

do i = 1 to countw(Rule_Results,';');

_Rule_Results_ = scan(Rule_Results,i,';');

OUTPUT;
end;


run;

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Reeza
Super User

You're missing the OUTPUT statement to create a new record.

 

data loop;
set Import;

do i = 1 to countw(Rule_Results,';');

_Rule_Results_ = scan(Rule_Results,i,';');

OUTPUT;
end;


run;
Stretlow
Obsidian | Level 7
So close!!! Thanks for the help

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