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Walternate
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi,

 

I have a dataset at the person level but with duplicate rows. It has ID and character variables A, B, and C. I wanted unique rows, so I ran this code:

 

proc sort nodupkey data=have;

by ID char_A char_B char_C;

run;

 

It worked without producing an error message, but when looking through the data I noticed that at least one duplicate row remained.

 

ID   Char_A        Char_B      Char_C

1         abc- d       def_g         ghi

1         abc- d       def_g         ghi

 

I'm not sure why this row remained in the data, as it looks like most of the duplicate rows were correctly deleted. Is there a way to troubleshoot and figure out whether there's some minor difference between the character variables or some other reason that the duplicate row wasn't removed?

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

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data_null__
Jade | Level 19

Display the values of the BY variables for the suspect observations using $HEX format, I expect you will find they are different.  There is probably a character that is displayed as a space but is not, or you have a different number of leading spaces.

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