I have a large data set like this :
NAME MONEY NB NUMBER CLASS
John 300 1 4 ab_4_ab_1
Max 250 2 5 be_2_be_1
Matt 1520 2 2 da_3_da_2
I use this code :
data want;
set have;
if nb = 2
then do;
money = money / number;
nb = nb / 2;
output;
end;
output;
drop number;
run;
to get this data :
NAME MONEY NB CLASS
John 300 1 ab_4_ab_1
Max 50 1 be_2_be_1
Max 50 1 be_2_be_1
Matt 760 1 da_3_da_2
Matt 760 1 da_3_da_2
I want to assign to the first duplicate observation the first four character of CLASS and the last four character of CLASS for the second duplicate observation. I mean how get this :
NAME MONEY NB CLASS
John 300 1 ab_4_ab_1
Max 50 1 be_2
Max 50 1 be_1
Matt 760 1 da_3
Matt 760 1 da_2
data want;
set have;
if nb = 2 then do;
money = money / number;
nb = nb / 2;
c = class;
class = substr(c,1,4);
output;
class = substr(c,6,4);
output;
end;
else output;
drop number c;
run;
data want;
set have;
if nb = 2 then do;
money = money / number;
nb = nb / 2;
c = class;
class = substr(c,1,4);
output;
class = substr(c,6,4);
output;
end;
else output;
drop number c;
run;
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